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- Maia Campbell was born on 26 November 1976 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for In the House (1995), Poetic Justice (1993) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Tamyra Gray was born on 26 July 1979 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Rachel Getting Married (2008), Boston Public (2000) and Obsessed (2009). She has been married to Sam Watters since 2 September 2006. They have one child.- Additional Crew
- Producer
- Actor
Christopher Scott graduated from the Hollywood High Performing Arts Magnet Program in 2001. He began his career as a dancer and choreographer in the Step Up dance film franchise. From there, he went on to become associate producer and choreographer of the original online dance experience, The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (2010) aka The LXD. In the second and third seasons, Christopher moved behind the camera to make his directorial debut.
From 2010 to 2016, Christopher was a resident choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance (2010) and became well-known for his story-driven duets and elaborate group routines.- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Ron Holsey was born on 30 January 1981 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Interrupting Chicken (2022), Odd Squad (2014) and Big Time Rush (2009).- Casting Director
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Brigitte Burdine was born on 8 August 1962 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She was a casting director and actress, known for The New Mike Hammer (1984), Justice League Heroes (2006) and Narc (2005). She died on 29 December 2010 in Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lauren Giddings was born on 18 April 1984 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She died on 26 June 2011 in Macon, Georgia, USA.
- Jeff Tetreault was born on 6 June 1983 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is a writer, known for Bad Johnson (2014), Accidentally MILF and Cannabis Cancer Kid (WT).
- Composer
- Soundtrack
John Fahey was born on 28 February 1939 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He was a composer, known for Logan Lucky (2017), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Zabriskie Point (1970). He died on 22 February 2001 in Salem, Oregon, USA.- Heather Baker was born on 7 November 1970 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Raw Energy (1995), Big Sister 2000 (1995) and Candy Von Dewd and the Girls from Latexploitia (2002).
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Joel Schmidt was born on 4 April 1964 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008), Starked Out (2009) and Desire (2006). He is married to Jill Ruemke Schmidt. They have two children.- A.J. Hunt was born on 27 December 1976 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for The Roommate (2011), Man, Moment, Machine (2005) and Combat Report (2015).
- Ray Miller was born on 30 April 1945 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He died on 4 May 2021 in Weirton, West Virginia, USA.
- Actress
- Producer
Annjee Diggs was born Angela Michelle Blake in Takoma Park, Maryland to David and Brenda Blake. After a year, her family moved to her mother's hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where her parents later divorced. At the age of 11, her family moved again to Topeka, Kansas where she grew up and attended high school. In high school, Diggs was an all-around athlete participating in cheerleading, dance team, volleyball, basketball, track and on record as Topeka High School's first female wrestler. Ever the entertainer, Diggs was a member of three choral ensembles and starred in two high school theatrical productions. She played the role of Maretha in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson," and a member of the production "Race" which featured a collection of monologues from people with an array of ethnic backgrounds.
After high school, Annjee attended college at Virginia State University on a presidential academic scholarship as well as an athletic scholarship for cross country and track. She was also a member of the highly revered cheerleading squad affectionately known as the "Woo Woos." Annjee graduated with a degree in marketing.
It was at Virginia State where Annjee met her husband, Bobby, who encouraged her to go on her first film audition. She was cast in that film and has pursued her acting career ever since.- Music Department
- Producer
- Actress
Jen Tonon was born on 9 June 1983 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Super Tromette Action Movie Go! (2008), Deadlands: The Rising (2006) and The Zombie Hero (2010).- David Ray Burton was born on 14 November 1978 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for $tiffed or How I Learned to Deal with Dissapointment (2012), Jonah and the Great Fish (2011) and In Convenience (2008). He has been married to Natalie Erdmann Burton since 12 December 2007. They have two children.
- Carole Copeland was born on 8 September 1943 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Diner (1982) and The Adventure of the Action Hunters (1986). She died on 2 October 2017.
- Marty Lyons was born on 5 January 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA.
- Bowie Kuhn was Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) for a quarter-century during arguable its most important epoch aside from the founding of the two major leagues, as he oversee the volatile era that saw the end of baseball's reserve clause and the advent of free agency. Before he was appointed commissioner by MLB owners, he had served as the National League and MLB legal counsel for almost 20 years.
Born in Takoma Park, Maryland on October 28, 1926 and raised in Washington, D.C., Kukn matriculated at Franklin and Marshall College under the U.S. Navy's V-12 Officer Training Program before going on to Princeton University in 1945. After graduating from Princeton with honors in 1947 with a degree in economics, he attended the University of Virginia Law School, from which he graduated in 1950. He then joined the New York law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, which he reportedly chose because it represented the National League. After the owners forced out retired Air Force General William Eckert in 1968, who wasn't considered savvy about MLB politics (such as the inordinate amount of influence wielded by a few owners and their absolute antipathy towards the fledgling baseball players union, as they considered their players chattel), Kukn was appointed Commissioner, assuming office on February 4, 1969. As Commissioner, he would oversee a major work stoppage in 1972 and the first strike to hit organized sports in 1981.
At the time of his assuming the post, many observers complained that baseball was too old-fashioned for the Swinging Sixties, a decade which saw the National Football League seriously challenge baseball's primacy as "America's past-time. Unlike the slow, stately paced baseball, football was television friendly, and it was television that pushed the sport to unprecedented levels of popularity in the 1960s. Football overcame baseball as the "Withit" sport as it featured violence that could be shot from many angles, with plays slowed down and instantly replayed for a mass audience (many of whom had bet on the outcome of games). However, by the time Bowie Kuhn left office on September 30, 1984, baseball was enjoying its greatest popularity, with attendance up from 23 million in 1968 to 45.5 million in 1983 and money television contracts having vastly expanded during the same time frame.
Kuhn proved to be a firm commissioner when it came to matters of discipline with both players and owners, though he was criticized by the players for serving the best interests of the owners (which was natural, the Commissioner being appointed by and serving at the pleasure of MLB's owners). During his tenure, he suspended numerous players for drug involvement and barred both Willie Mays (in 1979) and Mickey Mantle (in 1983) from the sport due to their involvement in casino promotion. (Both superstars subsequently were reinstated by Kuhn's successor, Peter Ueberroth, after he assumed the post of commissioner in 1985). He also levied the first suspension of New York Yankees owner George M. Steinbrenner III, after "The Boss" was convicted of making illegal campaign contribution to President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign. (Steinbrenner felt he was unfairly treated as he, a shipbuilder dependent upon government contracts and a member of the Democratic Party to boot, had been shaken down by the corrupt President.)
Oakland A's owner Charles O. Finley also incurred the Wrath of Kuhn. It had been Finley's idea to stage World Series games at night so that they could attract a larger TV audience, an innovation first implemented in 1971. Finley didn't like it that Kukn seemingly was credited with his idea. Finley proved a major embarrassment to MLB when he forced second baseman Mike Andrews to sign a false affidavit saying he was injured after he committed two consecutive errors in the 12th inning of Oakland's Game 2 loss to the New York Mets during the 1973 World Series. After A's manager Dick Williams and A's players led by team captain Sal Bando rallied to Andrew' defense, Kuhn forced Finley to reinstate Andrews. In 1976, when Finley -- in reaction to the imposition of free agency in baseball that would "free the slaves" and fatten the bank accounts of Mercedes dealers beginning with the end of the 1976 season -- attempted to sell several players who were potential free agents to the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees for $3.5 million, Kuhn blocked the deals on the grounds that they would be bad for the game.
Towards the end of his commissionership, four players from the Kansas City Royals were found guilty of cocaine use in 1983. In addition, established stars as Ferguson Jenkins, Keith Hernandez, Dave Parker, and Dale Berra admitted to having problems with drugs. The drug mess threatened to tarnish the image of baseball, but Kuhn was very firm in disciplining players who abused drugs (in contrast to current Commissioner Bud Selig, who ignored the steroids problem as the unprecedented numbers of home runs hit by artificially bulked up players was deemed good for business).
Bowie Kuhn was both praised and attacked for his firm stand against offenders, and he also had antagonized some owners over his ineffectual leadership during the 1981 baseball strike, which ended with a clear victory for the players union. In 1982, some of the owners organized a move to push him out of office. In 1983, Kuhn and his supporters made a last-ditch effort to renew his contract but ultimately failed as many MLB owners didn't think he could handle an upcoming work stoppage by the players union. It was announced that he was to be replaced with businessman and 1984 Los Angeles Olympics organizer Peter Ueberroth) after the the 1984 regular season.
Following baseball, Kuhn returned to the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He also was named President of the Kent Group, a business, sports and financial consulting firm, and became an adviser and board member for Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan's Ave Maria Foundation. Kuhn has served as Chairman of the Catholic Advisory Board of the Ave Maria Mutual Funds since the inception of their first mutual fund, Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund, in May 2001. - Kevin Eade was born on 16 November 1960 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is a producer, known for Tour de Force (2010), Craig (2008) and Kiesza: The Mysterious Disappearance of Etta Place (2024).
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Kevin Michaluk was born on 17 April 1990 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Dinner Guests (2010), Water Bound Blues (2012) and Sunwell: Eels (2023).- Additional Crew
- Camera and Electrical Department
Jacob Snider was born on 13 May 1989 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. Jacob is known for Salt (2010) and Soap Opera: Abridged (2009).- Fred Funk was born on 14 June 1956 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jon Harari was born on 12 February 1982 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for The Passion (2007), Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) and A Walking Tour of Historic Murray Hill (2019).- Actress
- Make-Up Department
- Script and Continuity Department
La Middleton was born on 8 November 1990 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Halloweed (2016), MysEducation and Labels (2015).- Leonard Bailey was born on 28 August 1942 in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. He was married to Nancy Schroeder. He died on 12 May 2019 in Redlands, California, USA.