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Amanda Tepe is a native of Norwood in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her television credits include roles on Without A Trace, Dexter, Days of Our Lives, Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip, That's So Raven, Entourage, The Inside, and October Road. Tepe's notorious recurring guest starring roles include a monotone-speaking drone with multiple jobs on Disney's Emmy award-winning show Wizards of Waverly Place, Donna the White House Tour Guide on Disney's Cory in the House, and Colleen, the evil nanny of Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher) on ABC's General Hospital. Her film work includes Rob Zombie's Halloween, Pulse, Bottoms Up, Dumping Grounds, Crazy, Save the Mavericks, Jelly, Backyard Wedding (MOW), and her breakout role in Iowa. Tepe has also starred in multi-award winning short films This is Jack (director/producer/writer), Framed, Dandelion Dharma, and Side Effects, opposite Arye Gross. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from CalArts and studied at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow. Additionally, Amanda holds a Master of Arts in Educational Theatre from New York University.Born On October 16- Director
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Brea Grant was born in Marshall, Texas and attended high school at Marshall Public High School. She earned an MA at the University of Texas in Austin. Her first television acting job was on Friday Night Lights. She went on to play characters on Dexter and Heroes. She now resides in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Autumn Withers is an award-winning, American screen/stage actress and writer. Her television credits include guest appearances on FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), Panhandle (Spectrum), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Grey's Anatomy (ABC), Modern Family (ABC), Masters of Sex (SHO), Growing Up Fisher (NBC), Army Wives (Lifetime), Stray Day (Disney XD pilot), and recurring opposite Jenny Slate in the JASH digital series Catherine, an audience favorite at Sundance. She appears in the world's first film made during lockdown, Cabin Fever, alongside an international cast. She can also be seen in drama Any Day with Sean Bean, Monarch with Illeana Douglas, and she stars in Avalanche, for which she won Best Actress in a Feature at NoHo Cinefest. Casting Director Erica Bream has said, "I'm always excited to see what Autumn will do with a role. Her ease with both comedy and drama add layers and subtlety to any character, no matter the piece, and her confidence as she makes strong, appropriate choices is so appealing. She's a joy to watch." Autumn's select theater credits include the role of Ann Deever in Arthur Miller's All My Sons (Los Angeles) and the world premiere of the hit play Is There Sex After Marriage? by playwright Jeff Gould. A native of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Autumn got her start on stage as the youngest cast member in the Broadway show Yo' Alice directed by Maurice Hines and as one of the famed Radio City Rockettes.
Autumn's stage/screen career along with her Creative Writing degree fostered her desire to write female-driven stories of her own. In 2015 she partnered with Ryann Ferguson, a Broadway lyricist and novelist. They are perhaps the only female writing team in Hollywood to be matchmade by their parents, who were committed hippies together in the 70s. Their slate of content ranges from biting female comedy to historical adaptation and has seen options as well as various commendations from Screencraft, Austin Film Festival, and HBO. Autumn also collaborates with screenwriter Darren O'Hare. Their first comedy pilot was a semi-finalist at Sundance Episodic Lab. Autumn and Darren speak fluent rom-com and have two more in development. Her semi-autobiographical dramedy feature, Sprog, was honored by Slamdance. She also cut her producing chops on the award-winning dark comedy feature, Avalanche, now streaming globally. And her debut novel is coming in fall 2024.
Autumn is the founder of the Hollywood Women's Collective, empowering women creatives professionally and personally, which had a vibrant seven year run of guest speakers, charity events, goal groups, and industry collaborations.
Autumn shares her time between Manhattan, Atlanta, and Paris with her artist husband, incredible daughter, and untrained rescue dog.- Actress
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Allie Rivera Quiñonez is an American Actress and Producer. Born in Cleveland, OH, she began performing professionally in musical theatre as a child, eventually making her way to New York where she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has performed at the Kennedy Center in DC, and has appeared in various off-Broadway and touring shows around the country before making her way to Los Angeles where she works consistently in Film and TV, both in front and behind the camera.- Actress
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Carlie Casey was born on 16 October 1990 in Minnesota, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Are You There God? It's Me Margot (2017), Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2004) and Young Lion of the West. She has been married to Scott Simock since 18 September 2017. They have one child.- Caterina Scorsone has been a professional actress since the age of eight, when she was a regular on the daytime children's program Mr. Dressup (1967) for Canada's CBC. A veteran of series television, her other series credits include Shock Treatment (2004), Once a Thief (1996) and Power Play (1998), which garnered her a nomination for a Gemini Award, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmy. She starred with Vivica A. Fox in "Missing" (aka 1-800-Missing (2003)) (2003-6). She has also appeared in episodes of The Border (2008) and The Guard (2008). Scorsone's TV movies include My Horrible Year! (2001), directed by Eric Stoltz; Common Ground (1990); Rated X (2000), directed by Emilio Estevez; The Devil's Arithmetic (1999); and Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families (1998). Her feature film credits include The Third Miracle (1999) with Ed Harris and Anne Heche; Borderline Normal (2001) and Strike! (2002). Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Scorsone is the middle child in a family of five siblings that includes two older twin sisters and a younger brother and sister. She got her first taste of acting in the family living room, where her older sister would play director and all the other kids were in the cast. She completed the final credits in her studies toward an Arts and Science BA at the University of Toronto while filming Missing.
- Barbara Sinatra was born on 16 October 1926 in Bosworth, Missouri, USA. She was married to Frank Sinatra, Zeppo Marx and Robert Harrison Oliver. She died on 25 July 2017 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
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Bridget O'Neill was born on 16 October 1981 in the USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Hard Surfaces (2017), First Person (2019) and Revelation (2012).- Art Department
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Character designer Coral Kerr was born in California, almost on the sandy beach, hence the name, "Coral". Her mother and father were born and raised in New York and after her father, William H. "Bud" Kerr, was an All American at Notre Dame in 1939, his career as a professional football player for the short-lived Los Angeles Dons team fulfilled their dream of moving to the California coast. Though football coaching jobs meant the family moved frequently, it provided an eclectic exposure for Coral who often sat in the press box, when her father coached the San Francisco 49ers and drew cartoons of the football players during games.
In the mid 1960s Ms. Kerr was living at the Hollywood Studio Club in Hollywood, California and to make a steady income she began working at Hanna-Barbera, then the largest, most active animation house. She is best known in the entertainment industry for having created characters for film and television, such as "Cling and Clang", "Witchiepoo", "Freddie the Flute", and numerous others for Sid and Marty Krofft's productions of "H.R.Pufnstuf", but her career began in the theatre, on stage, as a performer in musical comedy, mostly in small roles,appearing in many shows with stars from the 1950's and 1960's,such as George Gobel,Jerry Van Dyke,Giselle MacKenzie,and Juliet Prowse in theatre-in-the-round. As an improvisational comedienne with the Harvey Lembeck workshop in the early 1970's Coral kerr worked extensively with John Ritter,Mary kay Place,Diana Hyland,cast members from the television series "Happy Days" and Mike Farrell of "Mash" fame.- Actress
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Growing up as the daughter of the teacher Wolfgang Meffert and his wife Marianne née Kleber, she attended school in Großenhain from 1961 to 1973. She completed her Abitur at the extended high school. After training as a nurse, she began studying textile engineering at the TU Dresden in 1976. From 1978 to 1981 she attended the Ernst Busch Drama School in Berlin and came to Chemnitz, then Karl Marx City. There she made her acting debut with the Goethe play "Faust II". Under Heiner Müller she played in the Shakespeare drama "Macbeth" at the Berlin Volksbühne in 1982. Roles in Berlin followed, including in the "Threepenny Opera" and in "Now Only Brecht". Corinna Harfouch became a celebrated film actress in the GDR and rose to stardom on German television and on the screen after the fall of communism. During the GDR era she starred in films such as "The House by the River", "Fallada - Last Chapter" (1987), "The Little Public Prosecutor" (1987), "The Actress" (1988), "The Big Mouth" and " Meeting in Travers" (1989).
After reunification, she thrilled television audiences in the TV series "Our teacher Dr. Specht", in the TV film "5 Hours of Fear - Taking Hostages in Kindergarten" and in crime films such as "Tatort" and "Kommissar Beck". Further film roles followed for Corinna Harfouch. In 1993 she impressed in her first leading role in Joseph Vilsmaier's "Charlie & Louise" and then in "The Promise". She appeared in front of the camera for many other successful productions. She played alongside Helmut Berger alongside Jürgen Vogel in "Come Back, Sexy Sadie" (1995), in "Damn, He Loves Me", with Katharina and Anna Thalbach in "Dangerous Girlfriend" (1996) and together with Til Schweiger and Jan Josef Liefers in "Knockin'' On Heavens Door" (1997). "To err is male" (1996), "Solo for Clarinet" (1998), "The Great Bagarozy" (1999), "Fandango - Members Only" (2000) and "Now or Never - Time is Money" (2000) were other film hits in which Corinna Harfouch was seen. She also received a lot of attention in 1996 when she appeared in "Eva, Hitler's Lover".
She also appeared on the stage of the Berliner Volkstheater in "The Woman from the Sea" and "Des Teufels General". Corinna Harfouch starred alongside Katja Riemann in the children's film "Bibi Blocksberg", which was released in German cinemas in 2002. The sequel "Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of the Blue Owls" was published in 2004. Corinna Harfouch has received several awards for her achievements. She received the Critics' Prize for Best Actress twice - in 1989 for "The Actress" and in 1990 for "Meeting in Travers." In 1995 she was awarded the "Bavarian Film Prize" for "Irren ist Mann" and in 1997 she was honored with the "Golden Lion" and the "Bavarian Film Prize" for "The Outbreak" and "Dangerous Girlfriend". One of her most spectacular roles is her portrayal of Magda Goebbels in the Oliver Hirschbiegel drama "Downfall". The film with Bruno Ganz in the role of Adolf Hitler is about the last days in the Führerbunker.
In November 2005, "Through this night I don't see a single star" was released in cinemas. Corinna Harfouch plays Bozena Nemcová (1820 - 1862), the most famous Czech writer to date, who led a life far removed from all conventions. Harfouch was named "Best German Actress" at the 2007 "Golden Camera" award ceremony.
Corinna Harfouch is the mother of a son from her marriage to Michael Gwisdeck.- Actress
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Davina McCall was born on 16 October 1967 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Dead Set (2008), Doctor Who (2005) and A Bear's Christmas Tail (2004). She was previously married to Matthew Robertson and Andrew Leggett.- Actress
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Elsa Zylberstein was born on 16 October 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and producer, known for I've Loved You So Long (2008), Un + Une (2015) and Van Gogh (1991).- Actress
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After making the children's TV show 'Disneyklubben' she began to study acting at Teaterhögskolan in Stockholm. She graduated with a performance in Lars Norén's play 'Munich-Aten'. She has done a lot of roles for both radio and television. She is currently under contract with The Royal Dramatic Theatre, where she has starred in Bertolt Brecht's 'Puntila' and Tennessee Williams' 'This Property Is Condemned'.- Director
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Giada Colagrande was born in Italy in 1975. She studied in Italy, Switzerland and Australia. In 1995 she began making video art and documentaries on contemporary art. From 1997 to 2000 she joined the art project VOLUME, making a series of video portraits of 7 contemporary artists: Jannis Kounellis, Alfredo Pirri, Bernhard Rüdiger, Nunzio, Raimund Kummer, Gianni Dessí, Maurizio Savini and Sol Lewitt. She made three short films: Carnaval (1998), "Fetus - 4 Brings Death" (1999), and "n.3" (2000). In 2001 she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film Open My Heart (2002) (Open My Heart), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2002, and then was selected by many international film festivals, such as the Tribeca Film Festival 2003, in competition, and Paris Cinema 2003, where it won the award 'Prix de l'avenir'. Giada was also nominated for Best New Director at the Silver Ribbon 2003. Open my Heart was released in Italy by Lucky Red and in the USA by Strand Releasing. In 2005 she directed her second feature Before It Had a Name (2005), which she co-wrote and co-starred in with Willem Dafoe. The film opened at the Venice Film Festival 2005, was then showed in San Sebastian Film Festival and various other international festivals. It was distributed worldwide by Millennium with the title 'Black Widow'. In 2010 she wrote and directed her third feature A Woman (2010), starring Willem Dafoe, Jess Weixler and Stefania Rocca. It also premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2010 and then screened at many other international film festivals. In 2012 she made the short film The Woman Dress (2012), for the Prada series "The Miu Miu Women's Tales", and the feature film Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic (2012), a documentary on the opera directed by Robert Wilson, based on Marina Abramovic's biography, starring Willem Dafoe, Antony Hegarty and Abramovic herself, which was screened at MoMA in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Both films premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2012. In 2013 the film The Abramovic Method (2013), which continues her collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramovic, was presented at the Venice Film Festival and went on to being shown in art museums around the world. In 2016 she wrote, directed and performed in Padre (2016) starring herself, Willem Dafoe, Franco Battiato and Marina Abramovic. After premiering at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (Mexico), the film is still showing in film festivals around the world, while being theatrically released by The Open Reel. As an actress, she has also performed in Abel Ferrara's Pasolini (2014) and in Wes Anderson's short film Castello Cavalcanti (2013). In 2017 Giada made her debut as a singer, writer & composer in the project THE MAGIC DOOR, created with Arthuan Rebis and Vincenzo Zitello.- Actress
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Born in Birmingham, Michigan, Hayley moved to Los Angeles at the age of two, where she began acting professionally in film and TV as a child, winning a Youth in Film Young Artist award at eleven for her performance opposite 'Shelley Winters' in "Touch of a Stranger."
Hayley graduated from Vassar College, after spending her junior year abroad at the Sorbonne.
Hayley also is a singer-songwriter and musician whose songs have been featured on many popular television shows, including How I Met Your Mother, Royal Pains, and Pretty Little Liars.- Jacquetta Wheeler was born on 16 October 1981 in London, England, UK.
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Janet Aldrich grew up in Illinois, the daughter of Fran and George Wallerich, the youngest of 4. The year her parents divorced, she saw Bob Fosse 's film of "Cabaret (1972)", which awoke in her a lifetime passion for acting and singing. Janet then went to high school in the SF Bay area, and graduated from University of Miami. She originally majored in pre-law philosophy, then switched majors to theatre after being cast as Maria in West Side Story at the Ring Theatre alongside Ray Liotta as Riff and Steven Bauer as Diesel A trained soprano with a substantial belt, her first professional job in the theatre was at the Coconut Grove Theatre's production of "Bubblin' Brown Sugar" understudying the role of Sophie Tucker. There she met her first 2 mentors, Chapman Roberts and Elliott Lawrence, who planted the seeds for a New York career. After graduating with a BFA and touring with a show in South America in a show, she moved to New York and met Bob Fosse, her new mentor. She was discovered by her first agent in a showcase production in which she played Joan Crawford. Her first professional performance was on Ryan's Hope (1975) as nurse Ethel Lanson, her third was a national tour of "Annie" as the Star To Be. From there Ms. Aldrich went on to an illustrious New York Broadway and Paris career. Just after her third out of five Broadway shows, which was written and directed by Mr. George Abbott, she flew off to Paris and starred in Jérôme Savary's French production of "Cabaret" as Sally Bowles, replacing Ute Lemper. Despite so many French people saying her American accent was charming, she learned it's better for her to sing on French TV than to answer questions. Her co-star and French mentor, Jacqueline Danno, produced several demo recordings of her original songs. She appeared on CBS' Guiding Light (1952) as three different co-star/guest stars, As the World Turns (1956), and NBC's Another World (1964). Long ago the head of daytime casting at ABC at the time told her that ABC soaps don't do humor. Janet married Carlos Valdes-Dapena mid-career, and performed on- or headed to Broadway while pregnant, twice. Thanks to casting directors Sue Crystal and Jim Pitt, her first appearance on Saturday Night Live (1975) was 6 months after giving birth to her first-born child. Just two minutes before airing, she was called into the sound booth and told her character, Sheba, would not be doing her Egyptian dance with G.E. Smith's trio behind her as performed earlier, but instead to Madonna's recording of "Justify My Love". She responded, "Oh great! I can make that even funnier!" For her flexibility and ease at finding the comedy on a dime, she was asked to return to SNL for 3 years until the extended cast was added. She now lives in Montclair, New Jersey near her first child, and enjoys being a "Glamma" to 2 granddaughters between appearances. She records Audiobooks in her spare time.- Producer
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Kary Johnson was born on 16 October 1974 in Lansing, Michigan, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Pursuit of Freedom (2022), Thy Neighbor (2018) and Carol. She has been married to George A. Johnson since 26 June 1999. They have three children.- Kay Lome was born in New York, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Pam & Tommy (2022), Good Trouble (2019) and My Dad's Tapes (2011).
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Kellie Martin is an American actress from California. She has often worked as a voice actress in animation. Her most notable roles include the amateur detective Daphne Blake in the animated series "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" (1988-1991), the nerdy daughter Rebecca "Becca" Thatcher in the drama series "Life Goes On" (1989-1993), schoolteacher Christy Huddleston in the period series "Christy" (1994-1995), leading lady Roxanne in the musical comedy "A Goofy Movie" (1995), medical student Lucy Knight for two seasons of the medical drama "ER" (1998-2000), amateur detective and bookshop owner Samantha Kinsey in the film series "Mystery Woman" (2003-2007), and therapist and retired prosecutor Hailey Dean in the film series "Hailey Dean Mysteries" (2016-2019).
In 1975, Martin was born in Riverside, California. Riverside is the most populous city in the Inland Empire region, located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city was established in the early 1870s, and served as a center for California's citrus industry. Martin's parents were the retail executive Doug Martin and the kindergarten teacher Debbie Jett.
Martin made her acting debut in 1982, at the age of 7. One of her aunts was an employee of actor Michael Landon (1936-1991), who served as an executive producer of the Western series "Father Murphy" (1981-1983). The aunt helped Martin land a guest spot in this Western series.
Martin went to have guest appearances in several then-popular television series, such as the soap opera "Dallas", the short-lived sitcom "Life with Lucy" (1986), and the sitcom "My Two Dads". She made her debut as a voice actor in the short-lived animated series "Potato Head Kids" (1986-1987), cast as the regular character Lolly. The series only lasted for 23 episodes.
Martin landed her first major role in animation when cast as co-protagonist Daphne Blake in "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" (1988-1991). In previous depictions of Daphne, the character was depicted as either an adolescent or a young adult. In this series, Daphne was an elementary student who still lived with her wealthy parents. The series emphasized Daphne's haughty behavior and sarcastic personality. She was also the resident skeptic of the mystery-solving group, outright rejecting any explanation involving the existence of ghosts or the supernatural. The series lasted for 4 seasons and 27 episodes. It was the last animated series in the "Scooby-Doo" franchise to be produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, as the next series in the franchise was produced in 2002 by a different company.
Martin receive her first regular live-action role in the drama series "Life Goes On" (1989-1993), cast as Rebecca "Becca" Thatcher. The series was set in the suburbs of Chicago, and initially focused on the challenges the Thatcher family faced in raising a son diagnoses with Down Syndrome. The series later focused on the challenges faced by Becca in her everyday life. She was depicted as an intelligent and nerdy girl, but socially awkward and unlucky in her love life. Her first boyfriend Tyler Benchfield (played by Tommy Puett) was killed in a car accident, while drunk driving. Her second boyfriend Jesse McKenna (played by Chad Lowe) was HIV positive, and was uncertain about how long he would be able to survive with his medical condition. The series lasted for 4 seasons and 83 episodes. The final season also depicted a middle-aged version of Becca (played by Pamela Bellwood) , reminiscing abut her own past.
Martin's next regular role in animation was voicing Molly Tazmanian Devil in the animated sitcom "Taz-Mania" (1991-1995). Her character was depicted as the adolescent sister of protagonist Taz (voiced by Jim Cummings). Molly was an image-conscious valley girl. She was far more sophisticated than her older brother, but had a fiery temper of her own. The series lasted for 4 seasons and 65 episodes.
Martin next joined the cast of the fantasy series "Aladdin" (1994-1995), voicing recurring antagonist Sadira. In the series, Sadira was a female street rat who had an unrequited love for Aladdin, and was upset that her love interest was already engaged to another woman. After acquiring magical powers of her own, Sadira set out to win Aladdin's heart and to replace Princess Jasmine. Martin's character lacked actual malice, but had obsessive tendencies. She only appeared in 4 episodes, but was one of the most popular antagonists in the series.
Martin was cast as protagonist Christy Huddleston in the period series "Christy" (1994-1995), which was loosely based on the novel "Christy " (1967) by Catherine Marshall. In the series, Christy was the new schoolteacher of a rural settlement in Tennessee during the early 1910s. She was depicted as an outsider in the rural community, whose values clashed with the traditions of the permanent residents. The series acquired a cult following, but its production cost exceeded the advertising revenues. It was canceled after only 2 seasons. The series inspired three sequel television films, but Martin did not reprise her role.
Martin was cast as the leading lady Roxanne in the musical comedy "A Goofy Movie" (1995). In the film, Roxanne is a kind-hearted high school student who wants to date Maximilian "Max" Goof (voiced by Jason Marsden), the troubled adolescent son of Goofy. Their first date is canceled when Goofy insists on taking Max with him in a cross-country fishing trip, under the impression that he is rescuing his son from bad influences. Roxanne continues to pine for Max, while Max tries to impress her through a publicity stunt. The film under-performed at the box office, only earning a worldwide total of 37.6 million dollars in its initial release. It was nominated for the "Annie Award for Best Animated Feature", but lost to "Pocahontas". However the film sold well in the video market, acquired a cult following, and inspired a sequel film. Roxanne did not appear in the sequel film, and Martin never returned to this role.
From 1995 to 1998, Martin's roles were mainly limited to television films. In 1998, she joined the cast of the long-running medical drama "ER" (1994-2009), portraying the new regular character Lucy Knight. The character was portrayed as a hard-working medical student, but better suited to the psych department rather than emergency medicine. Martin remained a regular in the series for seasons 5 and 6, but wanted to leave the show. She agreed with the producers that her character was going to leave the series with a definite finale to her story. In her final episodes, Lucy is the only member of the medical staff who takes an interest in helping a schizophrenic patient. She is alone with the patient when he stabs her, and she dies shortly after. Lucy's final episode was broadcast in early 2000, but her death continued to haunt her colleagues.
Martin graduated from Yale University in 2001, with a degree in art history. For a few years, she willingly limited herself to minor acting appearances, in order to properly deal with changes in her personal life. In 2003, she was cast as protagonist Samantha Kinsey in the mystery film series "Mystery Woman". A total of 11 television films in this series were produced between 2003 and 2011.
In 2012, Martin joined the cast of the drama series "Army Wives" (2007-2013), portraying the recurring character of Captain Nicole Galassini. Her character was an Army intelligence officer who was injured in an ambush. Nicole was a lesbian, but the the "don't ask, don't tell" policy left her reluctant to make public appearances with her long-term partner Charlotte "Charlie" Mayfield (played by Ryan Michelle Bathe). Martin remained a recurring cast member for the 6th season of the series, but did not return for the 7th and last season.
In 2016, Martin was cast as protagonist Hailey Dean in the mystery film series "Hailey Dean Mysteries". A total of 9 films were released between 2016 and 2019. Hailey was depicted as a retired prosecutor for the District Attorney's office, who had started a new career as a therapist. But she unofficially investigated crime cases, and used old law enforcement contacts to assist her. Martin took a hiatus from acting in 2019, though her name is attached to at least one upcoming project.
By 2022, Martin was 46-years-old. She has never fully retired from acting, but she devotes time to operating her own store. She has two young daughters, and has admitted in interviews that she tries to be there for her family. Which at times affects her career choices. Martin remains popular with film and television audiences due to an ever-increasing number of memorable roles.- Actress
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Kim Wayans was born on 16 October 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for In Living Color (1990), My Wife and Kids (2000) and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996). She is married to Kevin Knotts.- Actress
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From the moment Laura Nativo stepped onto the set of the kid's television show Romper Room (1972) at the age of 5, she knew that show business was her destiny. However, when several months later her mother passed away after a battle with cancer, she realized the road to Hollywood would be a long, if not impossible, journey. With her mother gone and her father at work, six-year-old Laura had no choice but to take on the roles of "mother, wife, older sister, daughter" of the family - raising herself, as well as her younger sister.
She lived an extremely sheltered life, growing up in Parsippany, New Jersey, where she attended Catholic School for 12 years. Her extensive yet necessary home responsibilities left her little time to maintain her straight A+ grades, much less to excel in traveling softball and soccer, win countless forensics competitions, cheer for the St. Christopher's basketball team and still pursue her dreams of becoming a movie star. Yet she somehow made time for her #1 passion, acting, in countless plays, musicals and indie films, attending intense performing arts summer camps and even touring with the professional children's theater group Kids On Tour. These 12 years of strict discipline and long, full days taught Laura that with determination and careful time management, anything was possible In reflection, these difficult years proved to be an invaluable foundation for this overachiever.
After graduating at the top of her eighth-grade class, Laura went on to Parsippany Hills High School, where she balanced intensive performing arts study (acting, singing, dancing, gymnastics, debate, public speaking) with a heavy academic course load, varsity cheerleading and softball, leadership positions in Student Council, Key Club, and Environmental Club, winning esteemed National DECA awards and dedicating precious hours to community service. Yet these accomplishments were not enough for this girl next door. Though a four-year National Honors Society member and "Who's Who Among American High Schools" student, Laura felt certain the academic track to Harvard was not for her.
She was first discovered by Woody Allen, who picked her at an open casting call in NYC to appear in his film, Celebrity (1998). Inspired by this achievement, at the age of 17 Laura packed her bags for California, intending to spend only the summer there studying film and TV at UCLA and The Media Workshops. But she fell in love with L.A., and after jokingly asking her dad if she could move to California (and him saying yes!), this straight-A student sacrificed a senior year filled with pep rallies and prom, and left her family and friends behind to pursue her Hollywood dreams. She graduated Beverly Hills High School in just three months through a special independent-study program for teens in entertainment--a program whose alumni include Angelina Jolie and Nicolas Cage--with a 4.0 GPA. Determined to earn her spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Laura turned down full scholarships to numerous prestigious universities, and put her college "backup" plans on an indefinite hold. Only 17, this precocious young woman was confident that she wouldn't be needing a "backup".
Today, Laura Nativo is known as one of Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming young stars. When she's not on screen, she works behind the scenes as a producer for movies and music videos. Laura's natural talent, extraordinary focus, positive "I can" attitude and healthy drug-free lifestyle make her an ideal role for model young girls everywhere. At just 21, President of Inspire Entertainment, this Renaissance woman has already started her own production company, record label and magazine. In her "free time" she is spokesperson for Rock To Cure, a charity that she helped co-found, that uses the universal language of music to raise money and awareness for various organizations such as City of Hope, National Kidney Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis, and Drug-Free America. A self-described "prissy tomboy", Laura loves baseball, football, roller-blading, biking, tennis, rock climbing, water sports, and just about anything fun and athletic. She has been studying gymnastics and capoeira, the Brazilian martial art, for the past two years, to preparation for her upcoming film, "B.A.B.E. Force". An avid traveler, always seeking her next adventure, Laura maintains that "home is where my suitcase is!" A Jersey girl at heart, she is still super-close to her supportive father, Angelo (a scientist) and awesome younger sister, Lisa (a freshman at Rowan University), whom she visits as often as she can.- Actress
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Linda Darnell, one of five children of a postal clerk, grew up fast. At 11, she was modeling clothes, giving her age as 16. At 13, she was appearing on the stage with little theater groups. Her mother encouraged her to audition when Hollywood talent scouts came to Dallas. She went to California and when the studio found out how young she really was, she was sent home and told to come back when she was 15. Her fourth film, Star Dust (1940), was based on this real life experience. It was Star Dust (1940) that Darnell was watching the night of April 9, 1965, at the home of her former secretary, located in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The house caught on fire in the early hours of the next morning and Darnell died that afternoon in Cook County Hospital. The character she played in one of her best known roles, Forever Amber (1947) survived the London fire, the plague and the perils of being the mistress of the English king, Charles II.- Actress
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Linda Taylor was born on 16 October 1978 in Bucharest, Romania. She is an actress and producer, known for I'm Not Famous But I'm Aromanian (2013), Magda (2015) and Rett: There Is Hope (2011).- Actress
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Maria Guzeeva was born on 16 October 1982 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress and producer, known for Assassination Games (2011), Red Sky (2014) and Antikiller (2002).- Actress
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Smith is perhaps best-known as "Francine Desmond," intelligence agent (and nemesis of star Kate Jackson) on the CBS series Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983). Raised in Farmington, Michigan, Smith, an honor student with a mention in "Who's Who of American Students", enrolled in Michigan State University at age 17 to study psychology. She soon became an in-demand model and spokeswoman whose travel demands forced her to abandon her studies. She was "discovered" by a scout for "Playboy" magazine, selected as a centerfold (Miss July 1973) and promptly sent back on the road on press junkets. That road led to California.
With the support of Universal Studios Contract Department, Smith honed her thespian skills in workshops while appearing in featured TV roles (How the West Was Won (1976), Quincy M.E. (1976), Charlie's Angels (1976), etc.). Her first major film role was in the comedy blockbuster National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), where her "Babs Jansen" character, a vapid but devious cheerleader, was an arch-rival to John Belushi's "Bluto". Shortly afterward, she shared star billing with Debbie Allen in the CBS pilot Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979), which marked her professional singing/dancing debut.
During the actors strike of 1980, Smith produced and starred in an award-winning production of "Vanities", co-starring with Rita Wilson (wife of Tom Hanks). More TV appearances followed (Happy Days (1974), Taxi (1978), Dallas (1978), Fantasy Island (1977) and a special guest-starring role on a one-hour episode of Love, Sidney (1981). She went on to appear on NBC's Days of Our Lives (1965). One month after leaving "Days", she landed the "Scarecrow" pilot, and spent the next four years on the popular series. Smith was a co-creator of the board game "Beverly Hills - a Game of Wealth & Status", a satire of the community for which it was named and where she resides.
In 1987, she was included in the photo exhibit (and book) "The World's Most Beautiful Faces" with such luminaries as Brooke Shields and Linda Evangelista. As a member of various improv groups in the 1990s, she used her writing skills to pen comedic sketches for live performances in L.A. clubs. In 1996, she co-authored a non-fiction book entitled, "Downdating." The late 1990s saw Smith dabbling in production capacities on several indie films. In 1997, she and a partner co-wrote a futuristic socio-political screenplay ("Phoenix File"). She studied for three years at UCLA in production, screenwriting and language, and speaks French and Italian fluently.
In 1999, she began to sing in local L.A. clubs, everything from French "chansons" to R&B duets. On May 7, 2000, she married her singing partner, Keith England (formerly of The Allman Brothers Band, Montrose, The Tubes, among others). Keith also works in post-production and sings with his band as well as in various film & TV projects. The couple resides happily in Beverly Hills.
In 2000, Smith ventured back into acting and was seen most recently in two episodes of Greek (2007) and in Netflix's comedy film, A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018).- Mary Kate was signed with the world famous Wilhelmina Models agency in New York City at age 9 and has modeled in campaigns for H&M, Justice, Limited Too, Express and Nike to name a few and has appeared in numerous commercials. Most notably she has posed in spreads for American Vogue and Vogue Bambini and has appeared in several spreads for Supermodel's Unlimited Magazine and has been named to their annual "Most Beautiful" models feature twice. She grew up primarily in Connecticut and is the daughter of celebrity photographer Catherine Fiehn, Her father is environmentalist Anthony Malat.
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Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen is co-founder, Executive Producer & CEO at SAM Productions ApS, Meta Film, and A&M Productions.
Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen is a seasoned producer; her film and TV-productions are among the finest in Denmark. Along the way, she has produced for esteemed directors such as Lars von Trier, Nikolaj Arcel, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Omar Shargawi, Morten Hartz Kaplers, Heidi Maria Faisst, Mikkel Munch-Fals, Samanou Sahlstrøm, Kasper Barfoed, Bo Mikkelsen, Fenar Ahmed and Per Fly.
Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen's films and TV-series have have won awards both at home and abroad; they have been featured at festivals like Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastian, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Lacarno, Toronto and Göteborg. In 2013 A Royal Affair achieved an Oscar-nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen holds a Master of Arts-degree in Film Science from the University of Copenhagen.- Actress
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Erin Brown (born October 16, 1979 in Illinois, USA) is an actress, model, and film director. Her "trademark" appearance is her pronounced "naturalness" or lack of affectation, both in acting style and appearance.
She began her career making films for the underground filmmakers Factory 2000, then moved on to making films for ei Independent Cinema. She has since starred in many features for Shock-O-Rama Cinema and has directed her own films. As of 2005, she is still working in film and engaged in filmmaking studies in college.- Actress
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Natasha Sattler was born in Newark, Delaware, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Rocket Science (2007), Odd One Out (2014) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).- Nicole Maggio is an actress, known for The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show (2020), Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2 (2020), Wink (2017) and Binge (2017). Nicole is a graduate of the BFA acting program at Marymount Manhattan College. Nicole was recently seen on stage as the leads in Chameleon (The Emelin Theatre) and Perception of Color (American Theatre of Actors).
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Internationally recognized actress, Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff is the recipient of Germany's Otto Award (in recognition of her status as one of Germany's favorite actresses). Pamela is among just a handful of actresses who have done two television series, concurrently. This multi-talented actress learned how to balance her successful career as well as her personal life. She starred in the motion picture, Castle Rock (2000), with Ernest Borgnine and Alana Austin, Wolf Larson and Frank Gorshin for "TAG Entertainment" (Show Time), under the direction of Craig Clyde. Pamela starred in the comedy, "The Sicilian Bachelor", as "Millian Black" at the American Renegade Theatre in the NoHo Arts District of Los Angeles.
Pamela is best-known for her roles on Baywatch (1989) and Sirens (1993). Pamela managed to create two significant different characters and make them believable on these two series for several seasons (10 years on "Baywatch"). As "Kaye Morgan", she portrayed a cafe owner on "Baywatch" who stays in the mix of things and always lends a helping hand when she feels the necessity. On "Sirens", she portrayed "Ellen Baskin", the top ranking police psychologist, candid and to the point. Up until the final season ago, she was a frequent flyer between the beaches of Los Angeles, to the city of Montreal.
She starred in the motion picture, More Than Puppy Love (2002) (Show Time), that was shot entirely on location in Kansas City, with Diane Ladd, and in a motion picture, Route 66 (1998), in which she starred as the Stepmother, with an all-star cast that includes Diane Ladd, Alana Austin, Richard Moll, Mat McCoy and Bruce Weitz, under the direction of Steve Austin and written and produced by Shauna Leigh Austin.
Pamela made her motion picture debut when legendary director Francis Ford Coppola went to Oklahoma to shoot the hit film, Rumble Fish (1983), co-starring Matt Dillon, Vincent Spano and Mickey Rourke. He auditioned the locals for the other roles and she was hired. Encouraged by professionals about her abilities, she decided to relocate to Los Angeles. To make an income and to continue her education while pursuing her career, Pamela worked as a page on several popular hit series. After a year in California, she moved to New York to pursue her first love, the theatre. Immediately she signed with the Ford Petite Modeling Agency and, shortly thereafter, became one of the top petite models in the Big Apple, and soon adorned the covers of magazines. She co-starred off-Broadway in "Crimes of the Heart" and continued to study and act in various plays for the next two years. Comedy became one of Pamela's foundations, she worked with Joe Piscopo for over two years which included: stage, concert and night club appearances, television specials and guest appearances on the major talk show. She was polishing her craft as Piscopo's side-kick. Then, she landed a special with George Burns, on her own. With Burns, Pamela learned several tricks of the trade and fine-tuned her timing.
Returning to Los Angeles, she accomplished becoming a working actress, guest-starring on several TV shows, specials, MOWs, including George Burns Comedy Week (1985), Cheers (1982), The Young and the Restless (1973), The Fall Guy (1981), Superboy (1988), The Joe Piscopo New Jersey Special (1986), True Confessions (1981), T.J. Hooker (1982), Knight Rider (1982), etc. She starred in several plays, including "Dora", "I Remember Mama" and "Lilion", to name a few. Pamela co-starred in the motion picture, The Appointment (1982) and The Men's Club (1986). Hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma, she is the middle child of three sisters. Her mother and stepfather were ideal role models and unique parents; they raised 37 foster children throughout the years. Actually, Pamela's performing debut occurred at age nine, when she sang "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" and realized that she loved the stage. Pamela completed two years as an engineering major at Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College and she is an accredited lifeguard, an avid diver (certified scuba diver), skier as well as a top marksman.
Pamela is a working actress/producer... also being a mother of two daughters... as well as president of her own production company.- Actress
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Rifka Lodeizen was born on 16 October 1972 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She is an actress and writer, known for Overspel (2011), Kan door huid heen (2009) and Judas (2019).- Sarah Rachel Isenberg was born on 16 October 1981 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Shadow Glories (2001), My Brother Jack (2004) and Whipped (2000).
- Sharon Hacohen was born on 16 October 1964 in Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel. She is an actress, known for Cover-Up (1991), Alex Holeh Ahavah (1986) and Pasport (1990). She is married to Ache Bar. They have two children.
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Suzanne Somers was the third of four children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. Her father worked loading beer onto boxcars, and her mother was a medical secretary. She grew up living in constant fear of being hurt or even killed at the hands of her verbally and physically abusive, alcoholic father. She was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was young, and was a poor student. She excelled, however, in the arts and was active in her school's theater program. She won a music scholarship to college, but became pregnant after six months. She married the baby's father, Bruce Somers, and her only child, Bruce Somers, was born in November 1965. She was unhappy in her marriage and began an affair with her former drama teacher. Her husband found out about it and the marriage ended after just two years, in 1967. A single mom, she turned to modeling in San Francisco to support herself and her son. She also distanced herself from her family because her older brother and sister by then were also alcoholics.
In 1968, she won a job as a prize model on a game show hosted by her future husband, Alan Hamel, who was married at the time. The two began dating, and she became pregnant while Hamel was still married. They came to the conclusion that Suzanne should have an abortion, from which she suffered severe complications for several days.
In 1971, her son Bruce was severely injured when he was hit by a car, and the therapist counseling him only charged the financially struggling Somers $1 per week. She underwent therapy herself to overcome the problems of her dysfunctional childhood. In the early 1970s, she landed minor roles in film and TV, and finally won a role on the series Three's Company (1976). She married Hamel in 1977. She was fired from the series after she asked for a raise at the beginning of the fifth season.
She then headed to Las Vegas, where she performed extensively in the mid-1980s. In 1986, she began writing her autobiography, "Keeping Secrets", which was later made into a TV movie. In 1991, she landed the role of "Carol Foster", opposite Patrick Duffy, on the TV series Step by Step (1991). After the end of that show, she began co-hosting Candid Camera (1992).- Actress
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Tamara Podemski is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Toronto to an Ojibway mother from Treaty 4 Territory in Saskatchewan and an Ashkenazi father from Israel. She is a graduate of the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts where she studied theatre, dance and music throughout its 10-year program.
Though she is best known as a screen actress, Tamara's stage career has spanned over 25 years as an actress, singer, dancer and choreographer, most notably starring on Broadway in the musical RENT. She also has independent recording career, having wrote and released 3 albums [2 in Anishinaabemowin and 1 in English under her own record label, Mukwa Music].
Tamara made her biggest mark in Sterlin Harjo's film "Four Sheets to the Wind" when she won the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, followed by an IFC Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2008. After returning to the stage, she earned a Jessie Theatre Award nomination for her role in Marie Clements' play "The Edward Curtis Project" and, under the direction of Jani Lauzon, Tamara starred in Colleen Wagner's Governor General's Award-Winning Play "The Monument," which was hailed as one of the "10 Best Theatre Productions of 2018" by the Globe & Mail. Recently, she joined the all-Indigenous cast of Keith Barker's "This is How We Got Here" which won a 2020 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play. Behind the camera, Tamara is the writer and story producer of the documentary TV series Future History (directed and produced by her sister, Jennifer Podemski) and was nominated for Best Writing in a Factual Series at the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards. Tamara recently won an 2021 ACTRA Award for "Outstanding Female Performance" and a 2021 Canadian Screen Award for "Best Supporting Actress - Drama" for her role as Alison Trent in CBC's "Coroner."
As a community worker, she has travelled the globe sharing her cultural and creative experiences through workshops, keynotes and panel discussions. Having grandparents who are both Holocaust survivors and Residential School survivors, she speaks openly about issues of intergenerational trauma, reconciliation, inherited legacies and the importance of creating safe spaces for dialogue, education and collaboration.- Actress
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Terri J. Vaughn was born on 16 October 1969 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Steve Harvey Show (1996), Friday (1995) and All of Us (2003). She has been married to Karon Riley since 19 January 2008. They have two children. She was previously married to Derrick A. Carolina.Born On October 16- Alicia was raised in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Growing up, she competed in gymnastics and performed in school and community theatre productions. As she grew older, she realized that acting was what she saw herself doing as a career and hasn't looked back since. She has experienced success in film, tv, and the commercial industry in many different areas. A lover of traveling, she always looks forward to seeing where the next job takes her.Born On October 17
- Andrea Powell was born in Valdosta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, best known for The Resident (2022), The Righteous Gemstones (2019), Ender's Game (2013), and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012), and The Gates (2010). She has been married to Paul Ferguson since 1993. Andrea is a member of the Cherokee Nation.
- Since her acceptance into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts at just 16 years old, Angel Parker has enjoyed a thriving and respected career through her talent, hard work, and sophisticated charisma. Angel's body of work reflects her ease with both comedy and drama across an array of networks and platforms.
Angel's recent and upcoming work includes a starring role in "Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas" on NBC and recurring roles on the CW's "Superman & Lois," ABC's "The Rookie," and "The Recruit" for Netflix. Previous series regular and recurring roles include "Marvel's Runaways," "Lab Rats," "The Strain," "Trial & Error," "ER," and the FX Emmy Award-winning "American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson." She has also achieved a formidable list of lead roles and guest-star appearances, including Hulu's "The Dropout," the pilot of "La Brea," Kevin Costner's ABC pilot "National Parks," "The Good Doctor," "Grand Crew," "Animal Kingdom," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "911: Lone Star," "REL," "Teachers," "Castle," and "Criminal Minds," among others. In film, Angel's work includes the lead role in "You Are My Home" opposite Alyssa Milano for Netflix and the independent feature "Prisoner's Daughter" starring Kate Beckinsdale and Brian Cox.
Angel's roots also remain in the theater, having studied and worked with the British American Drama Academy, Independent Shakespeare Company, and Will & Company. She has performed with the Blank Theatre's Young Playwright's Festival for over a decade. Angel currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. She is represented by Innovative Artists and Joel Stevens Entertainment. - Annelle Sheline was born on 17 October 1985 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
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Bianca Bree grew up in the film industry watching her father, martial artist/actor Jean-Claude Van Damme perform on sets all over the world and is extremely athletic due to her mother, ex-bodybuilder and fitness competitor Gladys Portugues.
Having two very athletic parents, Bianca was thrown into sports at a young age such as karate, kick-boxing, boxing, ballet and figure skating. After repetitively watching the Olympics on television, she realized that going to the Olympics was a dream of hers. The cattiness of figure skating made Bianca dislike the sport, many times she was close to quitting but the love she had for the ice kept her sane. Fortunately she came across short track speed skating and that's when she decided her goal was the 2010 winter Olympics. Within the year of 2002, Bianca trained like an animal, she was entered in many competitions winning all but two. She was also given many awards including one of the hardest awards to receive, "Most improved". Her motivation was manic until she was told by her parents that they were moving to Vancouver, Canada. Bianca fell into a depression causing a back injury from a crash during her last race, placing first. Bianca continued skating with the Canadian Olympic team until she couldn't handle the pain from her injury, causing her to make the choice she never thought she would consider.
Bianca graduated high school at the age of 16, she then went to John Casablanca's in Vancouver to study acting. When she got offered a scholarship, she made the quick decision to assist her father around the world from film sets to business trips. Knowing she had an advantage, Bianca was very adamant when it came to educating herself about the film industry.
In 2007, Bianca was asked to make her first film debut in The Shepherd (2008) as Kassie Robideaux. In 2010 she appeared in The Eagle Path (2010) as Bianca Banks, which was written, directed, produced and starred by her father, Jean-Claude Van Damme. In 2010 she played the role of Anna Flint in Assassination Games (2011).
Bianca moved back to California and started speed skating again. But in 2011 a British TV network, ITV, approached Bianca's family to do a documented reality show titled; Jean Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors (2011). After the TV show was released, Bianca got an email from director Dominic Burns offering her the part of Carrie, lead role of his film Alien Uprising (2012). Being her first genuine offer, Bianca took the chance and went to the UK to start shooting, given the opportunity to do her own stunts and gained a great relationship with Dominic Burns, as well as being in his next upcoming projects. When Alien Uprising (2012) wrapped, Bianca was sent straight to Romania to play the role of Amalia in 6 Bullets (2012). After shooting two back to back films, Bianca made the smart decision to take her acting career more serious. The next year of 2012, Bianca played the role of Ashley in the film Welcome to the Jungle (2013).
Until Bianca starts her next upcoming projects, she occupies herself by staying in shape and expressing herself through poetry.- Hailing from Pittsburgh, Carley recently showcased her talent with a supporting role in the film, "Dirty Dead Con Men," portraying the character, Layla. Alongside Peter Dobson, she delivered a captivating performance that enhanced the depth of the film.
Beyond her acting achievements, Carley has carved out a unique presence in the entertainment industry. Her striking presence has graced commercials and major ad campaigns for renowned brands like Doritos, PepsiMax, Converse, and Champion Japan. Transitioning seamlessly into the music video realm, she has collaborated with esteemed directors on memorable projects such as Goo Goo Dolls, "Here is Gone" Insync N Nellie's "Girlfriend" and A Bullet for My Valentine,"Tears Don't Fall."
In the world of film, Carley's versatility has earned her cameo appearances in notable movies alongside acclaimed actors, as well as co-starring roles in impactful productions. Her talent has also garnered attention from casting directors, leading to roles in popular CBS/NBC soap operas.
Moreover, Carley's modeling career has seen her represent prestigious brands like Champion Japan and be featured in publications like Maxim UK.
Apart from her pursuits in acting and modeling, Carley has a deep passion for travel. She channels this passion into her career as a highly sourced and. in demand corporate flight attendant, where she caters to the world's elite clientele.
Outside of her professional pursuits, Carley remains dedicated to philanthropy. Serving as a Board of Director for the women's non-profit charity, "Knockouts For Girls", she actively contributes to organizing KO4G Celebrity Golf Tournaments and spearheads recruitment efforts for the charity, earning recognition for her philanthropic endeavors on an international scale. - Actress
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Christine Musset was born on 17 October 1974 in Soisy sous Montmorency, France. She is an actress, known for RRRrrrr!!! (2004), The Divorce (2003) and David Nolande (2006).- Actress
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Deanna Russo is known for The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022), Two and a Half Men (2003) and Knight Rider (2008). She has been married to Michael Daniel Cassady since 2014. They have one child.- Stunts
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E. Nova Zatzman was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Shazam! (2019) and Hobo with a Shotgun (2011).- Actress
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Emily Schooley is an award-winning actor and filmmaker who is known for blending genres and pushing boundaries in her work. She is also the founder of Laughing Cat Productions, a Toronto-based production company that focuses on telling intelligent, women-driven stories.
Acting is her first true love, and Emily appeared in her first lead role - as the Country Mouse, in Aesop's Fables - at the young age of five. Through elementary and high school, Emily continued to perform on stage in plays and musicals; she began her formal acting training in the University of Windsor's theatre program.
Her first-ever short film role, in Viktor - a student production by William Yeung - won best picture and Emily was nominated for best actress at the school's film festival. Two years later, life saw Emily relocating to Waterloo, Ontario, where she continued her studies in dramatic arts and graduated with honors in 2007 from UW Drama.
Her notable early film roles include the titular, quirky Orange Girl, which gained her international fans when it screened as part of the Portobello Film Festival in the UK. In North America, the film won a two-star award from the Canadian International Film & Video Festival. Other roles - like the ethereal, malicious Spook in the short horror film The Ticket - are what began to earn Emily a much-deserved reputation as a scream queen.
In February 2010, Emily made the move to Toronto, and with it came her feature film debut. She filmed Black Eve that same month, playing the sweet and flirty Pimp. Among other accolades, the film won the Audience Choice Award at Bare Bones International Film Festival. With a taste for (fake) blood, Emily has gone on to star in other genre films; in recognition of her work, she was a featured interviewee in A Big Set of Lungs - a documentary about scream queens.
Emily has since appeared in hundreds of screen, stage, and web productions. Some of her other all-time favourite on-screen roles include: the Lady in Red in Park Enforcer, Michelle in the much-lauded webseries Clutch, Cherry Bomb in the transmedia series Spy Slutz, helping rescued animals as herself on Save our Shelter, and that time she played Dana Scully in an X-files spoof.
Her favourite stage roles include Dahlia Joss in Zed.TO (which won the Performance Innovation Award at Toronto Fringe 2012), the "sensual and exciting" Lilith in Erotic Tales From the Old Testament, Frieda Ball in the world premiere of Maureen Jennings' Death in a Black Suit, and Mia in Heatwave (aka Labels). She has also trained and performed extensively in improv with Second City and the now-dissolved Impatient Theatre Company.
Currently, Emily continues to work as an actor while simultaneously building her body of work and developing her voice as an emerging director. She has written, produced and directed for both stage and screen, with projects ranging from from small intimate sets to large-scale productions involving over 100 cast and crew members. As of 2016, she is a proud associate member of Film Fatales.
Emily began making her own films in 2009, with her first short Complex submitted to the Project Direct competition for Sundance Film Festival. In 2010 she was an invited speaker at Notacon, where she presented a talk on independent filmmaking. Her two most recent short films - Life and the Art of Lying and Psyche - have both won awards; as a true polymath, she played the titular role in Psyche, alongside writing and directing the short film.
Outside of her creative work, Emily is an activist and animal enthusiast. She strongly supports gender equality and women escaping abusive situations, is an avid watchdog against police misconduct, and frequently speaks out for LGBTQ rights and equal representation in media. She also fosters rescue cats with Team Cat Rescue, an organization that focuses on saving animals from high-kill shelters.- Actress
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Erin Karpluk was born in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Being Erica (2009), A Million Little Things (2018) and Holly Hobbie (2018).- Actress
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Eva Dorrepaal was born on 17 October 1970 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. She is an actress and producer, known for Catfight (2016), Black Magic for White Boys (2017) and Scenes from an Empty Church (2021).- Actress
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Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress and producer. Jones started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. After Kings Norton Girls School, Jones attended King Edward VI Handsworth School, to complete A Levels and went on to take a gap year (during which she appeared in the BBC series Servants (2003)). She took time off from acting to attend school during her formative years, and has worked steadily since she graduated with a 2:1 from Wadham College, Oxford in 2006, where she read English. While studying English, she appeared in student plays, including Attis in which she played the title role, and, in 2005, Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" for the OUDS summer tour to Japan, starring alongside Harry Lloyd.
On radio, she is known for playing the long-running role of Emma Grundy in The Archers. In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden. Since 2006, Jones has appeared in numerous films, including Northanger Abbey (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Chéri (2009), and The Tempest (2010). She stars in Star Wars spin-off Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Jyn Erso. Her performance in the 2011 film Like Crazy (2011) was met with critical acclaim garnering her numerous awards, including a special jury prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, her performance as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) was also met with critical acclaim, garnering her nominations for the Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2019, Jones founded her own production company, Piecrust Productions with her brother, Alex Jones.- Actress
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Ingrid Sthare was born on 17 October 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Where Evil Lies (1995), Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) and Mind Games (1996).- Actress
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Margot Kidder was born Margaret Ruth Kidder in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, to Jocelyn Mary "Jill" (Wilson), a history teacher from British Columbia, and Kendall Kidder, a New Mexico-born mining engineer and explosives expert. Margot was a delightful child who took pride in everything she did. At an early age, she became aware of the great emotions she felt towards expressing herself, and caught the acting bug. As a child, she wrote in a diary that she wanted to become a movie star, and that one day it would happen, but she had to overcome something else first. She was aware that she was constantly facing mood swings, but didn't know why. At odd times, she would try to kill herself - the first time was at age 14 - but the next day she would be just fine. Her father's hectic schedule and moving around so much didn't help matters, either, causing her to attend 11 schools in 12 years. Finally, in an attempt to help Margot with her troubles, her parents sent" her to a boarding school, where she took part in school plays, such as Romeo and Juliet", in which she played the lead.
After graduation, Margot moved to Los Angeles to start a film career. She found herself dealing with a lot of prejudice, and hotheads, but later found solace with a Canadian agent. This was when she got her first acting job, in the Norman Jewison film Gaily, Gaily (1969). This led to another starring role in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970), in which she co-starred with Gene Wilder. After some harsh words from the film's director, Margot temporarily left films to study acting in New York, doing television work to pay her bills, but when the money ran out, she decided it was time to make a second try at acting. When she arrived in Hollywood she met up at a screen test with actress Jennifer Salt, resulting in a friendship that still stands strong today. Margot and Jennifer moved into a lofty beach house and befriended other, then unknown, struggling filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg and Susan Sarandon, among others. Late nights would see the hot, happening youngsters up until all hours talking around a fire about how they were all going to change the film industry. It was crazy living and within the Christmas season, Margot had become involved with De Palma, and as a Christmas present he gave her the script to his upcoming film Sisters (1972). Margot and Salt both had the leads in the film, and it was a huge critical success.
The film made branded Margot as a major talent, and in the following years she starred in a string of critically acclaimed pictures, such as Black Christmas (1974), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), 92 in the Shade (1975) - directed by Thomas McGuane, who was also her husband for a brief period - and a somewhat prophetic tale of self-resurrection, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975).
After three years of being a housewife, looking after her daughter Maggie and not working, Margot decided it was time to let her emotions take control and get back into acting. Once her marriage to McGuane was over, she eyed a script that would change her life forever. Her new agent referred her to a little-known director named Richard Donner. He was going to be directing a film called Superman (1978), and she auditioned for and secured the leading female role of Lois Lane. That film and Superman II (1980) filmed simultaneously. After the success of "Superman" she took on more intense roles, such as The Amityville Horror (1979) and Willie & Phil (1980). After that, Margot starred in numerous films, television and theater work throughout the 1980s, including Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). When the 1990s erupted with the Gulf War, Margot found herself becoming involved in politics. She made a stir in the biz when she spoke out against the military for their actions in Kuwait. She also appeared in a cameo in Donner's Maverick (1994).
In 1996, as she was preparing to write her autobiography, she began to become more and more paranoid. When her computer became infected with a virus, this gave her paranoia full rein, and she sank into bipolar disorder. She panicked, and the resulting psychological problems she created for herself resulted in her fantasizing that her first husband was going to kill her, so she left her home and faked her death, physically altering her appearance in the process. After an intervention took place, she got back on her feet and started the mental wellness campaign. Since then, she resumed her career in film, television, and theatre, including appearing in a Canadian stage production of "The Vagina Monologues", and in films like The Clown at Midnight (1998).
Margot died on May 13, 2018, in Livingston, Montana.- Actress
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Maria Anastacia Keogh was was born in Lewisham, Greater London. Her family the Thomas clan moved back to the west coast of Mayo, Ireland. As a youth she went to drama classes directed by the Irish playwright, RTE director and actor John Breen. During this time she studied Arts at the National University of Ireland, Galway and qualified as a secondary school teacher. Shortly after she began to write plays and stage them at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway. She wrote an original play about Shakespeare in 2008 she developed a love of him by reading his plays and playing many of the female roles. She also has worked on many independent films some of which include Italian and European awarding winning films The Doubleganger (2010) The LondonUnderground (2010) Annie (2009) Driving to ZigzagLand (2006) and the American award-winning hit Waiting for Dublin (2009). She has appeared in productions for Irish TV channels, such as TG4 and RTE.- Actress
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Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or perhaps her intelligence too often disguised a genuine sex appeal to stand out among the other lovelies. Two studios, Paramount in the late 1930s and MGM in the early 1940s, failed to complete her star. Nevertheless, her talent and versatility cannot be denied. This glamorous, slimly handsome leading lady offered herself to well over 50 pictures during the 1930s and 1940s alone.
Christened Marcia Virginia Hunt, the Chicago-born actress was the younger of two girls born to an attorney and voice teacher/accompanist. The family relocated to New York when she was quite young and she attended such schools as PS #9 and Horace Mann School for Girls. She developed an interest in acting at an early age (3), performing around and about in school plays and at church functions. Following her high school graduation the young beauty found work as a John Powers model and as a singer on radio, a gift obviously inherited from her mother. Marcia (she later changed the spelling of her first name to Marsha) studied drama at the Theodora Irvine Drama School (one of her fellow students was Cornel Wilde).
Encouraged to try Hollywood by various New York people in the business, the young photogenic hopeful moved there in 1934. She was only 17 but was accompanied by her older sister. It didn't take long for the studios to take an interest in her and she was signed up by Paramount not long after. Marsha's very first movie was in a featured role opposite Robert Cummings and Johnny Downs in the old-fashioned The Virginia Judge (1935). Displaying an innate, fresh-faced sensitivity, she moved directly into her second film, playing the title role in Gentle Julia (1936), this time with Tom Brown as her romantic interest.
Marsha continued to show promise but these well-acted roles were, more often than not, overlooked in mild "B"-level offerings. Appearing in co-starring roles in everything from westerns (Desert Gold (1936) and Thunder Trail (1937)) to folksy or flyweight comedy (Easy to Take (1936) and Murder Goes to College (1937)), she could not find decent enough scripts at Paramount. Though she was once deemed one of the studio's promising starlets, one of her last films there was another prairie flower role--[error]--with cowboys John Wayne and Johnny Mack Brown vying for her attention. At about this time (1938) she married Jerry Hopper, a Paramount film editor who turned to directing in the 1950s. This marriage lasted but a few years.
Freelancing for a time for many studios, Marsha's more noticeable war-era work in sentimental comedy and staunch war dramas came from MGM, and she finally signed with the studio in 1939. The roles offered, which included a featured part as one of the sisters in Pride and Prejudice (1940) starring Greer Garson, and again as a sister to Garson in Blossoms in the Dust (1941), which showed much more promise. Some of her better war-era roles came in the films Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), Kid Glove Killer (1942) and The Affairs of Martha (1942). During this time she also sang on extended USO tours and stayed busy on radio. Her best known film is arguably The Human Comedy (1943) but she wasn't the star. Other film roles had her in support of others, such as Margaret Sullavan in Cry 'Havoc' (1943), little Margaret O'Brien in Lost Angel (1943) and Garson again in The Valley of Decision (1945). Leading roles did not come in "A" pictures.
Her MGM contract was allowed to lapse in 1945 and a second marriage in 1946, to screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., became a higher priority. The marriage was long and happy (exactly 40 years) and lasted until his passing in June of 1986. The few pictures she made were, again, uneventful or in support of the star, although she did have a catchy, unsympathetic role in the Susan Hayward starrer Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) as a scheming secretary. In Raw Deal (1948), starring Dennis O'Keefe, she got the "raw deal" being overshadowed as a "good girl" by the "bad girl" posturings of Claire Trevor. At this point of her career she decided to try the stage and made her Broadway debut in "Joy to the World" (1948). Other plays down the road would include "The Devil's Disciple" with Maurice Evans, "The Lady's Not for Burning" with Vincent Price and "The Little Hut" with Leon Ames. She even had a chance to return to her beloved singing as Anna in a production of "The King and I" and (much later) in productions of "State Fair" and "Meet Me in St. Louis". TV also yielded some new work opportunities, including a presentation of "Twelfth Night" in which she portrayed Viola.
The seams of her film career fell apart in the early 1950s. During the late 1930s and into the 1940s she signed a number of petitions promoting liberal ideals, and was a member of the Committee for the First Amendment. A strong supporter of freedom of speech, these associations led to her name appearing in the pamphlet "Red Channels", a McCarthy-era publication that "exposed" alleged Communists and "subversives". Although she and her husband were never called before the House Un-American Activities Commission, their names were nevertheless smeared all over Hollywood as "Reds". While she still found film work on occasion, it was rare. Although she had worked steadily from 1935 until 1949, appearing in over 50 films, she made only three films in the next eight years. Her screenwriter husband would be credited for only one film from 1948 to 1955.
Semi-retired by the early 1960s, stage and TV became Marsha's focal points. She also devoted herself to civil rights causes and such humanitarian efforts as UNICEF, The March of Dimes and The Red Cross. She became actively involved with the United Nations. On the acting front she appeared only in smaller roles in five films but in numerous TV programs and made-for-TV movies, playing everything from judges to grandmas. She became the Honorary Mayor of Sherman Oaks, California, in 1983, and published a book on fashion entitled "The Way We Wore" in 1993. Widowed in 1986, the ever-vibrant Marsha, in her 90s, continues to serve on the Advisory Board of Directors for the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, a large non-profit that advocates for adults and children affected by homelessness and mental illness. As recently as 2006, she appeared to good advantage in the movie Chloe's Prayer (2006) and, at age 91, was seen in Empire State Building Murders (2008).- Actress
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Mary Pascoe's wide range of talents align themselves to all sorts of facets of our daily lives. The odds are good that you have already seen a TV show, movie, or commercial containing a Mary Pascoe appearance. From "Mad Men" to "Mona Lisa Smile", this red-haired singing comic can do it all.
You have probably seen her singing both serious and funny songs while playing various instruments on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, or at such world famous venues across the country as the Viper Room, the Whisky, and the Keyclub.
She performs stand-up comedy and music nearly every night of the week in Los Angeles (Flappers Comedy Club, Jon Lovitz Comedy Club, Hollywood & Highland's Koji's), producing many of the shows herself, and has shared stages with stars such as Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kyle Gass, and Jill Sobule.
Crowds go nuts over her spot-on impressions of hundreds of others, such as Amanda Bynes, Miley Cyrus, Zooey Deschanel, Britney Spears, Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Sarah Palin, and so many more. She is thrilled and thankful to work for NBC, Bravo, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, FOX, AMC, MTV, VH1, ABC, CBS, and many other networks.
This highly energetic entertainer from Battle Creek, Michigan throws herself full force into her work, and it is for this very reason that she can often seem to be in multiple places at once.
A proud SAG-AFTRA Member, Pascoe honed her craft early in life, singing and tap dancing in regional theatre as a child. She has trained extensively in acting, gymnastics, competitive cheer, dance, storytelling, broadcasting (named the State Champion by the Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Assocation), and even mime, and loves learning lots of new things each day.
At the age of 16, Pascoe headed to the prestigious Wellesley College, where she loved her classes in Robotics, Creative Writing, and Theatre (surprise!), and her award-winning Graphic/Website Design Company grew exponentially.
She soon graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Women's Studies, and hopped in her Jeep to head West, where she gratefully found a great deal of on-screen television work.
"LA Weekly" gives their "GO" stamp of approval for Pascoe's recent theatrical work. She hosts and guest stars on a number of radio shows and podcasts, including Playboy Radio's "Your Date with Destiny" on Sirius XM, "Decently Funny with Nuzzy and the Guy", and "The Pretty Good Podcast".
Always the self-starter, Pascoe wrote and produced her own 15 track album called "Who Brings a Cat to the Disco?" in 2006, including 3 bonus poems with Pascoe's own special brand of voice-over.
"Ginga Ninja, Foo!" is the second full-length album produced by Pascoe's own label, Crabble Dabble Entertainment, this time with her comedy band, the Raging Peanuts, 2010 Winners of the Hollywood G Club's Comedy Contest.
The Raging Peanuts grew out of the web series, "ROCKSTARS", for which Pascoe was the Creator and Showrunner, and they have held popular residencies at several LA hot spots, including Universal Bar & Grill, Max Steiners, and the Glendon.
Find Mary Pascoe and the Raging Peanuts on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Rhapsody, CD Baby, Target.com, and retailers everywhere.
And don't worry if you blink... you won't miss her. Mary Pascoe has a very long career ahead, and is loving every second of it.- Actress
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Michelle is well known around the world from her early work as a regular cast member on the Australian show "Neighbours" and the hit teen shows "The Tribe" and "Underemployed".
Emmy-nominated for her role of Alex in "Fear the Walking Dead; Flight 462", she won "Best Actress in A Feature Film" at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards 2011 for "My Wedding and Other Secrets" and was nominated for a Logie for her role in "Neighbours".
Her film work has screened in many festivals and won awards including those at Sundance, Cannes and Berlin.
She has worked with Oscar-winning director Jane Campion on BBC mini-series Top of the Lake, Jodie Foster, John Hillcoat and Steven Soderbergh.
Most recently she can be seen in Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone on CBS All Access where she plays a Chinese national marine biologist Dr Ling Hai in "8".- Patricia Stark is the President of Patricia Stark Communications a Public Speaking, Media Training, & Body Language Training Company. Patricia has extensive experience as a TV Host, national & international television news anchor, health & wellness host and interview host. She appears regularly on television as a guest expert on the topic of communication and as an Emmy Nominated talent judge on 26 episodes of New York Star of the Day on Fox 5 judging stage presence.
- Brunette French actress of Russian or Polish ancestry. A former model, she got her big break in films courtesy of an affair with the notorious womanizing mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast her as a member of the French Resistance in The Longest Day (1962). She played seven roles of diverse ethnicity in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965), but thereafter pretty much faded from the scene.
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Rachael Ferris was born on 17 October 1982 in California, USA. She is an actress and cinematographer, known for Weird Science Whatever (2008), Stitch in Time (2012) and The World's Astonishing News! (2000).- Actress
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Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers. Her father, Eduardo Cansino Reina, was a dancer as was his father before him. He emigrated from Spain in 1913. Rita's American mother, Volga Margaret (Hayworth), who was of mostly Irish descent, met Eduardo in 1916 and were married the following year. Rita, herself, studied as a dancer in order to follow in her family's footsteps. She joined her family on stage when she was eight years old when her family was filmed in a movie called La Fiesta (1926). It was her first film appearance, albeit an uncredited one. Sotted by Fox studio head Winfield R. Sheehan, she signed her first studio contract, and make her film debut at age sixteen, in Dante's Inferno (1935), followed by Cruz Diablo (1934). She continued to play small bit parts in several films under the name of "Rita Cansino". Fox dropped her after five small roles, but expert, exploitative promotion by her first husband Edward Judson soon brought Rita a new contract at Columbia Pictures, where studio head Harry Cohn changed her surname to Hayworth and approved raising her hairline by electrolysis. She played the second female lead, Judy McPherson, in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). After thirteen minor roles, Columbia lent her to Warner Bros. for her first big success, The Strawberry Blonde (1941); her splendid dancing with Fred Astaire in You'll Never Get Rich (1941) made her a star. This was the film that exuded the warmth and seductive vitality that was to make her famous. Her natural, raw beauty was showcased later that year in Blood and Sand (1941), filmed in Technicolor.
Rita was probably the second most popular actress after Betty Grable. In You'll Never Get Rich (1941) with Fred Astaire, was probably the film that moviegoers felt close to Rita. Her dancing, for which she had studied all her life, was astounding. After the hit Gilda (1946) (her dancing had made the film and it had made her), her career was on the skids. Although she was still making movies, they never approached her earlier success. The drought began between The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Champagne Safari (1954). Then after Salome (1953), she was not seen again until Pal Joey (1957). Part of the reasons for the downward spiral was television, but also Rita had been replaced by a new star at Columbia, Kim Novak.
Rita, herself, said, "Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me". In person, Rita was shy, quiet and unassuming; only when the cameras rolled did she turn on the explosive sexual charisma that in Gilda (1946) made her a superstar. To Rita, though, domestic bliss was a more important, if elusive, goal, and in 1949 she interrupted her career for marriage - unfortunately an unhappy one almost from the start - to the playboy Prince Aly Khan. Her films after her divorce from Khan include perhaps her best straight acting performances, Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) and They Came to Cordura (1959).
After a few, rather forgettable films in the 1960s, her career was essentially over. Her final film was The Wrath of God (1972). Her career was really never the same after Gilda (1946). Perhaps Gene Ringgold said it best when he remarked, "Rita Hayworth is not an actress of great depth. She was a dancer, a glamorous personality, and a sex symbol. These qualities are such that they can carry her no further professionally." Perhaps he was right but Hayworth fans would vehemently disagree with him.
Beginning in 1960 (age 42), early onset of Alzheimer's disease (undiagnosed until 1980) limited Rita's ability. The last few roles in her 60-film career were increasingly small. With 20 years of symptoms, Rita was cared for by her daughter, Yasmin Khan, until Rita's death at age 68 on May 14, 1987, in New York City.- Additional Crew
Ronni Chasen was born Veronica Cohen in Kingston, New York. She always harbored childhood ambitions to be a publicist after Roy Rogers and Dale Evans made a personal appearance in Madison Square Garden. Ronnie shook hands with Evans, and later told everyone she saw that she "shook hands with the Queen of the West!", her brother Larry Cohen recalled. In the seventies, she did publicity for Larry Cohen's low budget "blaxspoitation" pictures, later to arrive in Los Angeles as publicity director for American International Pictures in 1978. While working as a partner in Rogers and Cowan, she joined MGM as Worldwide Publicity Chairman in 1993. Her Chasen and Company represented some well-known directors such as Irwin Winkler, Mark Rydell and David Zucker. She led some campaigns to gain Oscars for many films including Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Rocky (1976). Before her tragic, unexpected death in 2010, she was leading a nomination campaign for Michael Douglas in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and Cher in Burlesque (2010).- Actress
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Sharon Leal is a military brat. She was born in Tucson, Arizona. Sharon then moved with her parents to the Philippines, till she was 6 years old. She went to prayer-school there. Then, her parents packed up to move back to the US and settled in Fresno, California. Her mother, Angelita, who is Filipino, is a homemaker, and her father is African-American. She has a step-father, Elmer Manankil. Elmer and Angelita have a daughter, together. So, Sharon has a younger sister, Kristina Manankil.
How she got started with the desire for performing. At the age of two, Sharon sang into a microphone, and her parents taped her. This later led to acting, which she began doing in community theater productions as a teen. Sharon graduated from "Roosevelt High School of the Arts" in Fresno. In 1993, she won a vocal scholarship at the "Santa Cruz Jazz Festival", which enabled her to study with Seth Riggs (Michael Jackson's voice coach). Sharon has also performed in various rap and R&B music videos. She has sung in cabaret productions at B. Smith's, The Violet, and Steve McGraw's, all in New York City, and played teenager "Dahlia Creed" on the daytime soap opera, Guiding Light (1952), in the mid-90s. At New York Theatre Workshop: "Bright Lights, Big City". Regional credits include "Little Shop of Horrors"-Arizona Theatre Co., "Into the Woods"-Theatre Works CA and other shows like "Ain't Misbehavin", "West Side Story", "Me and My Girl" and "Nunsense", to name a few. Last performed on Broadway as "Mimi" in "Rent".- Sophie Luck was born on 17 October 1989. She is an actress, known for Blue Water High (2005), Home and Away (1988) and Syd2030 (2012).
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Raised in Muscle Shoals, Alabama by maternal grandparents and aunt. Received BA Communications from University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Formerly a field reporter for CBS, ABC and Fox news affiliates. Studied acting at the acclaimed Atlantic Acting School (Atlantic Theatre Co.) New York City.- Additional Crew
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Susan Stroman is the recipient of 5 Tony Awards, 2 Laurence Olivier Awards, 5 Drama Desk Awards, 8 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, a record 5 Fred Astaire Awards, and the George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theater. She directed and choreographed "The Producers", winner of a record-making 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best Choreography. She co-created, directed and choreographed the Tony-Award winning musical "Contact" for Lincoln Center Theater. "Contact" also won a 2003 Emmy Award for its PBS 'Live from Lincoln Center' broadcast. Other Broadway credits include "The Scottsboro Boys", "Young Frankenstein", "The Frogs", "Oklahoma!", "Thou Shalt Not", "The Music Man", "Steel Pier", "Big", "Showboat", "Picnic" and "Crazy for You". Off-Broadway productions include "And The World Goes 'Round", "Flora the Red Menace", and "Happiness". For 10 years, she choreographed Madison Square Garden's annual spectacular "A Christmas Carol", directed by Mike Ockrent. For New York City Opera she choreographed "A Little Night Music", "110 in the Shade" and "Don Giovanni". She created "Double Feature", a full-length ballet for New York City Ballet featuring the music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson. Other ballets include "For the Love of Duke" for New York City Ballet, "But Not For Me" for the Martha Graham Company, and "Take Five...More or Less" for Pacific Northwest Ballet. Her choreography received an Emmy nomination for the HBO presentation Liza Minnelli Live from Radio City Music Hall (1992) (TV), starring Liza Minnelli. Other TV credits include co-conceiver/choreographer for PBS's 'Sondheim - a Celebration at Carnegie Hall' and "Evening at Pops: A Tribute to the Theater Music of Leonard Bernstein". She received the American Choreography Award for her work in Columbia Pictures feature film Center Stage (2000). Ms. Stroman directed and choreographed The Producers: The Movie Musical (2005), nominated for 4 Golden Globes.- Tatiana Nicole Del Toro was born on 17 October 1984 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Canadian-born and Australian-bred, Tiffany Lyndall Knight is at home on both stage and screen. Nominated for four Jessie Theatre Richardson awards, her theatre credits span eight seasons with Vancouver's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. Highlights include "Ariel" in "The Tempest", "Olivia" in "Twelfth Night", "Helena" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Regan" in "King Lear".
A graduate of Toronto's acclaimed George Brown Theatre School, Tiffany has taught and created theatre with young people throughout her career. She has developed programs for Bard on the Beach's education division, was a founder of the Gateway Academy of Performing Arts at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond BC, and has taught at the William Davis Centre for Performing Arts, the University of British Columbia, Adelaide Centre for the Arts, and Flinders University Drama Centre, South Australia. On screen, she has appeared in many lead and recurring roles, including the popular television series, Battlestar Galactica (2004), Da Vinci's City Hall (2005), Stargate SG-1 (1997) and Supernatural (2005). She was a co-creator and actor in the feature film, Mothers & Daughters (2008), which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Most Popular Canadian Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2008.Born On October 17- Actress
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German voice of Rosamund Pike in "Surrogates", "Hector and the search for happiness", " A United Kingdom", "Beirut" "Seven days in Entebbe", "State of the Union", "The Informer", "Marie Curie _ Radioactive", "I care a lot". Also known for her voice over work as Disneys "Pocahontas", "Nala" in "The Lion King", or Mama Imelda in "Coco" , Kelly Reilly (f. ex. "Yellowstone" , "Flight", " Sherlock Holmes" ) Miranda Otto ( f. ex. "The chilling adventures of Sabrina", "Lord of the Ring"s Trilogy, "Rake", "The silence" ) Bridget Moynahan ( f. ex."I, Robot", " Blue Bloods" ) or Gina Torres ( "Suits", "Pearson", "Westworld" ).Born On October 18- Bristol Palin was born on 18 October 1990 in Wasilla, Alaska, USA. She was previously married to Dakota Meyer.
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Carly Brook Schroeder is an actress, animal rights activist, environmentalist, and nutritional advocate, known for Gracie (2007), the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire (2001), and General Hospital (1963).
Schroeder was born on October 18, 1990, in Valparaiso, Indiana. She began doing print work at the age of three and commercials at the age of six.
In 1997, Schroeder was cast as Serena Baldwin in Port Charles (1997), a spin-off of General Hospital. She performed in 480 episodes during a six-year period, being nominated twice in 1999 and 2000 for a Young Artist Award. In 1999, Schroeder was also nominated for a Young Star Award; Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Daytime TV Program.
Schroeder has also been featured in several television shows and television movies. In 2002, Schroder won the role of the manipulative, yet lovable Melina Bianco in The Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire (2001). She also appeared in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003).
Her first feature film, Mean Creek (2004), received wide critical acclaim, winning the Humanitas Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and also being awarded the 2005 Independent Spirit Festival Special Distinction Award for best ensemble cast. Schroeder also appeared in Firewall (2006), with 'Harrison Ford', and Eye of the Dolphin (2006),
An avid soccer player since the age of five, Schroeder finally had the chance to combine two of her passions in a single project called Gracie (2007). Knowing she had to fight for the part, she began an intense three-month workout that included training in advanced soccer skills with professional athletes and trainers. Her exposure to an athletic lifestyle influenced her later decision to choose a health-conscious lifestyle.
While Gracie was in theaters Schroeder's other movie, Eye of the Dolphin (2006) received two awards from the 2007 International Family Film Festival; a Best Child Actor win for Schroeder and a Drama Feature win for the movie. Her most recent projects include Prep School (2015), and One of Us (2017). Schroeder was awarded best actress for her role as Kyra in Prep School at the 2016 Studio City Film Festival.
Her earlier work for the Humane Society and Meals on Wheels in 2004 opened her eyes to her other passion, traveling. By the time she entered college, Schroeder had been to 20 states, 11 countries. As of 2018, Carly has 16 movie titles on her resume. Her appearances for 2018 include Ouija House (2018) and Deadly Shores. Carly has also received weapons training in small arms.
Schroeder graduated from California Lutheran University in 2013, then went on to further her education in nutrition and holistic care. In a move towards a more health-focused lifestyle, Schroeder has given up meat, dairy, gluten, and refined sugars in exchange for a plant-strong diet. Accompanied by her dog Jax, she has embraced her wanderlust by climbing, backpacking, running marathons, snowboarding, surfing, and many more outdoor activities.
In January 2019, Carly raised her right hand and chose to go to officer candidates school for her commission in the US Army.- Actress
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A wholesome beauty with comedic appeal, Dawn Elberta Wells was born on October 18, 1938 in Reno, Nevada. Wells' childhood was a happy and healthy one. She and her mother grew their own fruits and vegetables in their gardens and Dawn rode horses. In her high school years, she was the class treasurer, President of the debate team and an honor roll student. Dawn was on her way to becoming a ballerina, but bad knees prevented her from realizing the dream. She was Miss Nevada in 1959 and went on to the 1960 Miss America Pageant. Dawn had wanted to be a doctor, and enrolled in the elite Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri to study medicine, but then she discovered the Drama Club. She then transferred to the University of Washington, which was known for their Theatre Department, and she graduated with a Degree in Theatre.
Dawn moved to Hollywood and was cast as Mary Ann Summers on CBS's Gilligan's Island (1964). The rest is history. However, there was much more to Dawn than her simple Mary Ann character. Wells refused to be an unemployed actor after the show ended and was never out of work since the show decades ago. She performed in over 66 theatrical productions, including the National Touring Company of "They're Playing Our Song!" She did countless voice-overs, commercials and talk shows. She worked for the Australian news show "Midday" and interviewed such talents as Julia Roberts, Eddie Murphy and Tom Hanks, to name a few. Dawn has also had great success as a producer and has a number of television movies to her credit. After years of touring and performing in dramas, comedies, and musical theatre, Dawn slowed down a little. In 1998, she founded the Dawn Wells' Film Actors Boot Camp in Driggs, Idaho. The camp is for the already trained actor looking to make the transition from the amateur to the professional actor.
Wells managed the camp for many years. She has been in a popular commercial for Western Union, capitalizing on her character Mary Ann Summers. In 2003, Dawn did tours of the plays "Love Letters" with Adam West and Eve Ensler's Award Winning "The Vagina Monologues." In early 2004, Dawn established and founded The Spud Film Institute in Idaho and Wyoming, and held the first ever Spud Drive in Film and Music Festival in the summer of 2004. She was also the artistic director of the festival. If that is not enough, Ms. Wells also had her own clothing line for the physically challenged called "Wishing Wells Collections" and she recently launched her own skin care line, Classic Beauty. Dawn Wells continued to contribute to the business she loved so much and constantly gave back to the acting community. She mentored young actors and traveled to colleges all across the United States to teach Master Classes. She served as Artist in Residence at several Universities. Dawn was in constant demand for personal appearances and speaking engagements, yet never forgot to give back to the Artistic community. She will surely be remembered for all her good work. Wells passed away on December 30, 2020 at age 82. You can get information about all of Dawn's organizations at her website, dawn-wells.com.- Producer
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Francine Lefrak was born on 18 October 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer, known for Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992), Miss Rose White (1992) and Shot Through the Heart (1998). She has been married to Rick Friedberg since 2 March 1996.- Actress
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Freida Selena Pinto was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India, to Sylvia, a school principal, and Frederick Pinto, a senior bank branch manager. She is from a Mangalorean family.
Pinto traversed the modeling circuit in Mumbai (represented by Elite Model Management India) for two years before gaining her big break when director Danny Boyle picked her out in the audition process to play the female lead, Latika, for his project Slumdog Millionaire (2008). In a promo interview, Boyle likened spotting her to his discovery of Kelly Macdonald for Trainspotting.
Surprisingly, Freida, who studied at Mumbai's St. Xaviers College, began taking acting classes (she has done amateur theater before) only after completing her debut film -- when she attended a three-month workshop by Barry John, the veteran theater guru.
Between 2006 and 2007, she anchored Full Circle, a travel show that was telecast on Zee International Asia Pacific. She went on assignments to Afghanistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Fiji, among other countries.- Actress
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Gloria Garayua was born in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Maid (2021), Reckoning (2019) and Grey's Anatomy (2005).- Actress
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Joanna Fyllidou is an actress originally from Greece. She studied at the National Theater of Northern Greece and from the very beginning of her career , Joanna managed to establish herself as a lead actress as she managed to land a series regular role in the first TV show she auditioned for "Litsa.com". Since then, she became very popular through TV, Film and Theater in Greece and also the Finnish film "The island of Secrets" which was distributed all over the world and was awarded in numerous film festivals. Skilled in dancing and singing , Joanna also held lead roles in musicals such as "Dirty Rotter Scoundrels" and "Fiddler on the Roof" directed by Rob Ruggiero. In 2018, she hosted "Bake Off Greece" , the Greek version of BBC's "The Great British Bake Off" which was created for the first time in Greece. Joanna Fyllidou has trained with Bob Krakower, Lesly Kahn, Muchelle Danner and Allan Burton at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. She has participated in the second season of "Swedish Dicks" on Pop TV with Peter Stormare and Johan Glans and independent films.- Actress
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Jennifer Ulrich was born on 18 October 1984 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Wave (2008), Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012) and We Are the Night (2010).- Actress
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Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director. Adams appeared in several Kevin Smith View Askewniverse films, including Chasing Amy, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Adams was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the youngest of three children. Her father was a lumber yard owner. Adams grew up in the Overbrook neighborhood of North Little Rock and graduated from North Little Rock Northeast High School in 1986. She announced her intention to pursue acting after one year as an exchange student in Australia.- Producer
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Joy Lauren (born Lauren Joy Jorgensen) was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She starting acting in the Southeast, before moving to Los Angeles in 2001. After performing in film and television, including four seasons on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," Joy received her bachelors from Columbia University, where she majored in American History.
Joy now resides in Brooklyn, New York where she produces and directs independent films.
Joy is an MFA Candidate at the graduate film program of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.- Additional Crew
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Lhotse Merriam was born on 18 October 1972 in Eugene, Oregon, USA. She is an actress and production manager, known for Peak Experience (2003), ESPN X-Games (1994) and ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 (2002). She was previously married to Tony Hawk.- Actress
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Lindsey Vonn (née Kildow) is now mostly known by her married name (her husband is the skier Thomas Vonn).
She began to ski at the tender age of 2 in her natal area Twin City (Minnesota) and was later enrolled into the famous development program at Buck Hill.
In her Olympic debut at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Lindsey came sixth in both slalom and combined at Salt Lake City and the next year she won a silver medal in downhill in the Junior World Championship at Puy St. Vincent, France.
In December 2004 she earned her first World Cup medal (bronze) for the downhill in Lake Louise, Alberta. Canada.
Despite injuries, Lindsey earned her first "big race" medals with silver in both the downhill and super G at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 held in Sweden.
After a recovering 2007 season through February 9, 2008, she had already won five World Cup races during the season and became World Cup discipline leader in both downhill and combined.- Producer
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Maria Bravo was born on 18 October 1967 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. She is a producer and actress, known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Cattle Call (2006) and For Your Eyes Only.- Maria Rangel was born on 18 October 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for A Million to Juan (1994), Legal Tender (1991) and The District (2000).
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Tammin Sursok was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Tammin is an actor and producer, known for Pretty Little Liars (2010), Rules of Engagement (2007) and Crossing Over (2009). Tammin has been married to Sean McEwen since 24 August 2011. They have two children.- Actress
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Nicola Posener was born in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for NCIS (2003), Secret Invasion (2023) and The Bold and the Beautiful (1987).- Actress
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Rachel Sorsa graduated from The University of Michigan with a BA in Theatre through the School of Literature and Science and The School of Music. After earning her MA in Theatre at Michigan State University and exemplary doctoral program at The University of Texas in Theatre History and Criticism, she dedicated her life to performance. Her early influences came from the playwrights of the time, Dan Dietz, particularly, who made it known how their love of the art could only be known through praxis. She moved to Atlanta and was discovered by Robert J. Farley, who immediately made her a muse and theatre star. Again, her love and alliances with playwrights led to over 20 successful productions in only 4 years, and a close relationship with Topher Payne. From there, she moved to Los Angeles and created her own band, Rachel Sorsa Band, released their album, SISU, that made a huge splash in the jazz scene and maintained a residency at the world-renowned jazz club The Baked Potato, while building her credits in the Los Angeles theatre, film, voiceover and television scene, becoming a 3-time Ovation nominee and multiple award winner across the board. She has worked prolifically teaching theatre arts and music to children, particularly the underserved, at promise and at risk, for her entire career and feels this is her greatest accomplishment.- Writer
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Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951, to Madeline Washington Tilman and Edward McMillan. She grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. Her parents divorced when she was thirteen and her father died three years later. McMillan's mother supported her family by working nights at a factory.- Actress
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Emme Rylan was born in Providence, North Carolina, USA. Emme is an actor and producer, known for Bring It on: All or Nothing (2006), General Hospital (1963) and Shevenge (2015).- Actress
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Wilma Elles is a German actress known in more than 70 countries in Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern and Central Europe for her lead-role in 'Filinta' and 'Yeter' and especially in the weekly TV series "Öyle bir gecer zaman ki" (As time goes by), which broke several viewer records and is watched with the highest ratings.
Since four years old she wanted to be an actress and performed plays for family and neighbors. She took acting classes since the age of 10 and played in about 26 theatre plays. After receiving her acting diploma from the Kaca Celan Theatre School she got her first offers for TV and cinema productions. Her breakthrough was definitely the lead role as Caroline in the record breaking TV series "As times goes by", which is now screened in 70 countries. Despite not knowing Turkish at that time she won the casting out of 800 actresses, while learning her lines phonetically. Now she speaks not only German and Turkish fluently, but also French and English, which she proved by playing a Native French and Native American English speaker in different cinema movies. Until now she gave life to the lead character in about twenty cinema movies.
Besides that she designed the worldwide first Feng Shui Fashion collection for the international brand ADL and appears as a model at various Fashion Weeks of the world. She has been on many magazine covers as Elle Bulgaria, GQ Turkey, Instyle Home, Tempo Turkey.
Wilma Elles has won twenty-one awards as Best Actress, including the European Quality Award and the World Consumer Award.- Actress
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Zhou Xun is an internationally acclaimed Chinese actress and singer.
She caught international attention through her roles in Lou Ye's Suzhou River in 2000 and Dai Sijie's film adaption of the book of same name Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress in 2002. In 2003, she starred in the television remake of Jinyong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes as "Huang Rong" with actor Li Yapeng. Zhou then successfully entered the Hong Kong film market in Peter Chan's Perhaps Love in 2005. This role gained her the Best Actress award in the Hong Kong Film Awards. Aside from acting, she has also released solo albums in 2003 titled "Summer" and in 2005 "Come Across", and sang for "Baober In Love," "Xin Bian Guo Le Xi San Meng You Xian Jing," and "Perhaps Love" motion picture soundtracks.Born On October 18- Actress
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Agnès Jaoui was born on 19 October 1964 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Taste of Others (2000), Look at Me (2004) and Family Resemblances (1996). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Bacri.Born On October 19- Andrea hails from the Goodyear Heights area of Akron, Ohio and has lived in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and North Carolina. Andrea enjoys various genres of movies, all things Bollywood as well as modern plays. She studies the Meisner Method with her eyes on one day being in a play at the famed Royal Court Theatre in London. Although she has received her Doctorate from the George Washington University in Education and Policy, she always goes back to her first career love, acting and dance. Some of her favorite actors are Lena Horne, Ben Whishaw, Cillian Murphy and Tony Leung. Andrea is married with a daughter.
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Kelly Kruger was born on 12 November 1982 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), Entourage (2004) and Blue Mountain State (2010). She has been married to Darin Brooks since 21 March 2016. They have one child.- Actress
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Anna Galvin was born on 19 October 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is an actress and writer, known for Tin Man (2007), Warcraft (2016) and The Sentinel (1996). She has been married to Raul Inglis since 2003. They have one child.- Gillian Hutchison was born on 19 October 1981 in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Bluebird (2015), Gray Matters (2006) and 22 Hands (2006).
- Carolyn Bishop was born on 19 October 1972 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Profile for Murder (1996).
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Heather Tom is a 5-time Emmy Award winner and has starred as Katie Logan on CBS' The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) since 2007, where she has also directed nearly 20 episodes of the show over the past three years. In 2018, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team.
In 2013, Variety included Heather on its list of "Daytime TV Impact Honorees" to celebrate innovators from daytime television. Of the 30 nominees representing all genres including network executives, producers, and news anchors, Heather was the only actor listed.
As a film director, her award-winning shorts Serenity (2017) and Bigfoot's Love Slave (2017) have played numerous festivals across the globe - including Festival de Cannes, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Cinequest, Vail, Cleveland, Florida, Omaha, Boston, LA Shorts Fest, HollyShorts, LA Comedy Festival, Canberra, Pittsburgh, and more.
Heather has also starred in ABC's The Young and the Restless (1973), on Broadway, co-hosted The View (1997) with Barbara Walters, Entertainment Tonight (1981), and The Talk (2010). She made five appearances on Politically Incorrect (1993) with Bill Maher and was a regular guest on MSNBC and Fox News as an advocate for women's health. She worked on both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's 2008 campaigns, and is involved with Planned Parenthood, Feminist Majority, She Votes, and Rock the Vote.
Heather resides in Los Angeles with her husband, James, and two dogs, Henry and Ella. In 2012, their best production ever was the birth of their son, Zane. She is a proud member of the Directors Guild of America.- Actress
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Born into wealth in Savannah, Georgia, on October 18, 1902, Ellen Miriam Hopkins was able to attend the finest educational institutions, including Goddard Seminary in Plainfield, Vermont, and Syracuse University in New York State. Studying dance in New York, she received her first taste of show business as a chorus girl at twenty. She appeared in local musicals before she began expanding her horizons by trying out dramatic roles four years later. By 1928, Miriam was appearing in stock companies on the East Coast, and her reviews were getting better after she had been vilified earlier in her career. In 1930, Miriam decided to try the silver screen and signed with Paramount Studios. Because she was already established on Broadway, Paramount felt it was getting a seasoned performer after the rave reviews she had received on Broadway. Her first role was in Fast and Loose (1930). The role, in which Miriam played a rebellious girl, was a good start. After appearing in 24 Hours (1931), in which she is killed by her husband, Miriam played Princess Anna in The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) opposite Maurice Chevalier. Still considered a newcomer, Miriam displayed a talent that had all the earmarks of stardom. She was to finish out the year by playing Ivy Pearson in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931). Miriam began filming The World and the Flesh (1932), which was not a box-office blockbuster. Later, she appeared in Dancers in the Dark (1932) with George Raft. The film was unexpectedly strong and enjoyable, which served as a catalyst to propel Miriam and Raft to bigger stardom. In Two Kinds of Women (1932), directed by William C. de Mille, Miriam once again performed magnificently. Later that year, she played Lily Vautier in the sophisticated comedy Trouble in Paradise (1932). A film that should have been nominated for an Academy Award, it has lasted through the years as a masterpiece in comedy. Even today, film buffs and historians rave about it. Miriam's brilliant performance in Design for Living (1933) propelled her to the top of Paramount's salary scale. Later that year, Miriam played the title role in The Story of Temple Drake (1933). Paramount was forced to tone down the film's violence and the character's rape in order to pass the Hayes Office code. Despite being watered down, it was still a box-office smash. In 1934, Miriam filmed All of Me (1934), which was less than well received. Soon, the country was abuzz as to who would play Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1939). Miriam wanted the coveted spot, especially because she was a Southern lady and a Georgia native. Unfortunately, as we all know, she didn't win the role. As a matter of fact, her only movie role that year was in The Old Maid (1939). By that time, the roles were only trickling in for her. With the slowdown in film work, Miriam found herself returning to the stage. She made two films in 1940, none in 1941, one in 1942, and one in 1943. The stage was her work now. However, in 1949, she received the role of Lavinia Penniman in The Heiress (1949). Miriam made only three films in the 1950s, but she had begun making appearances on television programs. Miriam made her final big-screen appearance in Hollywood Horror House (1970). Nine days before her 70th birthday, on October 9, 1972, Miriam died of a heart attack in New York.- Actress
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Gillian Jacobs was born on October 19, 1982 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker and her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was an alumni relations officer at Carnegie Mellon University.
Gillian is an alumnus of Mt. Lebanon High School, Pennsylvania, and Juilliard School, New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts and began acting at a young age by attending acting classes at the Pittsburgh Playhouse on weekends.
Jacobs made her acting debut portraying the role of Titania in Pittsburgh Public Theater's stage adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the age of 16. Years later, she made her debut in a feature film with the Building Girl (2005) then, made her television debut with the role of Adele Congreve in three episodes of The Book of Daniel (2006).
In 2006, Gillian appeared in "Cagelove", an off-Broadway production. The play received negative reviews from all quarters yet, all reviews appreciated Gillian's acting talent.
Jacobs' performance as CJ in the Nonames (2010) remains the most memorable role in the pre-breakout of her career, which brought huge laurels for her acting as well as the Special Jury Award and Copper Wing Award in Phoenix Film Festival.
Her big break came in the form of Community (2009), wherein she played the role of Britta Perry for six seasons until curtains came down on the show. In 2015, she also appeared in the HBO series Girls (2012) with a recurring role as Mimi-Rose Howard.
In 2016, she joined the Love (2016) to play the role of Mickey Dobbs for three consecutive seasons on Netflix. Her other streaming platform collaboration for a TV series came in 2021 with Invincible (2021) on Amazon Prime where she plays the role of Atom Eve. She will feature as Chris Riley, wife of legendary basketball coach Pat Riley, in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022) and Maggie in Minx (2022) for a recurring role. Both shows will debut on HBO and HBO Max respectively in 2022.
Gillian's other prominent film appearances include Choke (2008), Gardens of the Night (2008), The Box (2009), Life Partners (2014), Walk of Shame (2014), Don't Think Twice (2016), Life of the Party (2018) and I Used to Go Here (2020) while her future projects are The Contractor (2022) and Any Other Night.
She also appeared on the back of the camera as well. In 2015, Gillian directed a short documentary titled The Queen of Code (2015) about Grace Hopper, a rear admiral in the US Navy and a computer scientist, who ushered in the digital era.
Later, she directed a short film Curated (2018) in the form of Shatterbox, a film series from TNT and Refinery29. Her latest as a director came with Higher, Further, Faster (2020) for Marvel 616 (2020).
In 2022, she will have her directing and acting credit together on a feature film with The Seven Faces of Jane (2022) for the first time.
In-person Jacobs is a teetotaler. She says she made a choice while young to never have an alcoholic beverage or do drugs. She says her father is an addict, and together with reading the cautionary tale in the young adult novel "Go Ask Alice", about a 15-year-old drug addict, made an impact on her life in this regard.
Another book that shaped Gillian's perspective of life is "No Turn Unstoned" by Diana Rigg, a collection of terrible reviews that undeniably great actors received over the years. It was given to her by an acting teacher after she received a very bad review in a local paper for her initial performance in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Thanks to this experience, she started to see these performances as an opportunity, a chance to improve instead of a burden.- Actress
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Los Angeles Native, Angela de Silva, has spent over 2 decades studying and honing her craft under the guide of distinguished and well known acting coaches. She has worked alongside Emmy and Oscar winning artists on television shows, and has produced and starred in two viral and award nominated web series. Having spent the last couple years deepening her work on herself, she feels she is now in the second act of her career. Angela graduated from both The Second City and UCB Conservatory programs, and is developing 3 new projects as she loves to always be creating and working. She recently shot a series regular role on a pilot presentation for Amazon, and is also attached as a lead to an independent film with producers who have contracts with Netflix.
In addition to acting, Angela is a trained dancer, pianist, and martial artists. She also studied Sociology at UC Irvine, and Management at Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business. She serves as Chair for the City of West Hollywood's Woman's Advisory Board, and has a 501(c)3 non-profit, Annapurna Buy a Meal, Give A Meal.