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Nick Robinson made his film debut starring as Joe in CBS Films' critically-acclaimed adventure The Kings of Summer (2013), followed by shooting a lead role in the Universal action adventure sequel Jurassic World (2015), where he starred alongside Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Vincent D'Onofrio and Bryce Dallas Howard. In 2015, Nick had the lead role of a drug-addicted teenager in Rob Reiner's drama Being Charlie (2015), and in 2016, played Ben Parish in Sony Pictures' adaptation of Rick Yancey's bestselling science fiction novel The 5th Wave (2016), helmed by J Blakeson and co-starring Chloë Grace Moretz. Also among his credits is HBO drama Boardwalk Empire (2010).
Continuing his streak of novels-to-films, Nick starred with Amandla Stenberg in the 2017 romance Everything, Everything (2017), and played the title role of a gay teenager in the well-received 2018 dramedy Love, Simon (2018).
Nick was born in Seattle, Washington, to Denise Podnar and Michael Robinson.- Actor
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan endeared himself to audiences with his recurring
role on ABC's smash hit series
Grey's Anatomy (2005). His
dramatic arc as heart patient Denny Duquette, who wins the heart of
intern Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl)
in a star-crossed romance, made him a universal fan favorite. He also
had recurring roles on The CW and Warner Bros' television series Supernatural (2005), The Good Wife (2009), and
on Showtime and Lions Gate Television's award-winning comedy series
Weeds (2005). He currently stars as Negan on the hit AMC series, The Walking Dead (2010).
Morgan starred in Warner Bros.'
Watchmen (2009), director
Zack Snyder's
(300 (2006)) adaptation of the iconic graphic
novel. He played the pivotal role of the Comedian, a Vietnam War vet who
is a member of a group of heroes called the Minutemen. He next
appeared in producer Joel Silver's
The Losers (2010), for Warner
Bros. It is an adaptation of DC-Vertigo's acclaimed comic book series
about a band of black ops commandos who are set up to be killed by
their own government. The team barely survives and sets out to get
even. James Vanderbilt adapted the
screenplay, and Sylvain White directed. He
appeared in Focus Features'
Taking Woodstock (2009),
directed by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee. He
also starred opposite Uma Thurman in Yari
Film Group's romantic comedy
The Accidental Husband (2008).
Additional feature credits include a cameo role opposite
Rachel Weisz in Warner Bros.' comedy
Fred Claus (2007), and the independent
office comedy Kabluey (2007), in which
he played a charismatic yet smarmy co-worker of
Lisa Kudrow's character.
In 2011, the in-demand actor starred in the independent murder mystery
Texas Killing Fields (2011).
In the film, based on a true story, Morgan plays a detective
transplanted from New York who teams with a local investigator
(Sam Worthington) to work on a series of
unsolved murders in industrial wastelands surrounding Gulf Coast
refineries, where as many as 70 bodies turned up over the past two
decades. Together, they wage a war against the unknown assailants.
Michael Mann produced the film,
while his daughter, Ami Canaan Mann,
directed. The actor traveled to Thailand, where he filmed the Weinstein
Company's period drama Shanghai (2010),
under the direction of Mikael Håfström
(1408 (2007)).
John Cusack stars as an American who
returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months prior to
Pearl Harbor and learns that his friend Connor (Morgan) was
killed. While trying to solve the murder, he discovers a much larger
secret that his own government is hiding. In addition, Morgan has a
role in Michael London's
Groundswell Productions'
All Good Things (2010), starring
Kirsten Dunst and
Ryan Gosling, also for the Weinstein Co.
He also stars opposite two-time Academy Award winner
Hilary Swank in the suspense thriller
The Resident (2011), for Hammer
Films. It is the story of a young doctor (Swank) who moves into a
Brooklyn loft and becomes suspicious that she is not alone. Morgan
plays Max, her charming new landlord whom she discovers has developed
a dangerous obsession with her. Morgan previously co-starred with Swank
in Warner Bros.'
P.S. I Love You (2007).
Morgan also appeared in the MGM/UA reboot of the 1984 action movie
Red Dawn (2012). The plot focuses on a
group of teenagers who form an insurgency called the Wolverines
when their town is invaded by Cuban and Russian soldiers. Morgan plays
the role of Lieutenant Andrew Tanner, the leader of the US Special
Forces who finds the Wolverines.
Morgan was born in Seattle, Washington, to Sandy Thomas and Richard
Dean Morgan. In his spare time, Morgan enjoys barbecuing on the grill,
reading, watching movies, and listening to his favorite band,
Eagles. He also loves to root for his
home team, the Seattle Seahawks. He resides in Los Angeles with his
dogs, Honey Dog and Bandit Morgan, a puppy he rescued in Puerto Rico while
filming. He resides in a farm in New York's Hudson Valley, where he is also part-owner of a small coffee shop with business partner The Losers (2010).- Actress
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Erika Jane Christensen was born in 1982 in Seattle, Washington, to Kathy (Hendricks), a construction manager, and Steven Christensen, a human resources executive and insurance worker. She was raised in the suburban
outskirts of Los Angeles, California. At age 12, Erika knew that she
was going to be an actress. Talented in acting, singing and dance, the
young Christensen was determined, not just lucky; it wasn't long before
she landed her first job: a commercial for national advertising giant,
McDonalds. She followed up with a part in
Michael Jackson's music video
for "Childhood," then landed her big break: a lead role in Universal's
Leave It to Beaver (1997).
Christensen was only 13 years old, but acclaimed by critics for her
"chemistry" and "radiant self-assurance."
Guest spots on television followed. Christensen popped up everywhere
including prime time heavy hitters like
Frasier (1993),
Nothing Sacred (1997),
The Practice (1997),
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
and
Touched by an Angel (1994).
Erika received a nomination by the Hollywood Reporter for the 1998
Young Star Award (Best Performance By A Young Actress in a TV Drama
Series) for her outstanding performance in
Nothing Sacred (1997).
Erika also kept her big screen presence known, in 1999 she worked on a
Disney made-for-tv movie called
Can of Worms (1999). And
in 2000 Erika was able to show the world her acting chops when she took
the gritty role of Caroline Wakefield, a teenage daughter of the White
House Drug Czar who is herself a drug addict, in the award-winning
Steven Soderbergh film,
Traffic (2000). Aside from the
distinction of playing alongside Hollywood's elite, Erika earned
critical acclaim for the realism of the role, and received multiple
awards including Female Breakthrough Performance at the MTV Movie
Awards, Female Standout Performance at the Young Hollywood Awards, and
Outstanding Performance by a Cast Ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild
Awards.
Erika is of Norwegian (from her paternal grandmother), Danish, English, German, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish descent.- Actress
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Named one of fall TV's breakout stars by IndieWire, Emma Dumont has quickly become known for the powerful characters she brings to life on screen. Dumont can currently be seen starring on FOX's drama series "The Gifted," which follows an ordinary suburban family whose lives change course forever when they discover their children have developed mutant powers. "The Gifted," based on Marvel Comics' X-Men series, is set in an alternate timeline where the X-Men have disappeared. Dumont shines as Polaris, daughter to X-Men character Magneto, however while brave and loyal, she struggles with an internal darkness and teeters in and out of control due to an undiagnosed bipolar disorder. "The Gifted" premiered on October 2, 2017 and is currently in production of season 2.
In addition to "The Gifted" Dumont recently starred as Charles Manson's dedicated follower Emma Karn on NBC's 60's-era drama "Aquarius" opposite David Duchovny. She also appeared on ABC Family's scripted dance series "Bunheads" as Melanie. Dumont made her feature film debut in director Craig Johnson's "True Adolescents" at 12 years old, alongside Melissa Leo and Mark Duplass. Additional credits include: "Mind Games" for ABC, "T@gged" for AwesomenessTV, "Pretty Little Liars" and "The Fosters" for Freeform, and "The Magicians" for SYFY.
Born in Seattle, Washington Dumont had a love for the arts at a young age. She began ballet dancing at just three years old and studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Cornish College of the Arts and Spectrum Dance Theatre School, while spending summers at the American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet School and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. At four years old she began taking violin lessons and went on to play with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Glendale Youth Orchestra. At 15 years old Dumont won V Magazine's model search contest and appeared in their March 2010 issue, landing a contract with Ford Models. She worked fashion week in New York City that year, and went on to model in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, China, and Tokyo. While Dumont was excelling in dance, music, and modeling, one of her biggest passions was acting, and she continued to hone her craft in community theater and classes, landing roles in indie films in her teens and a handful of series roles.
While acting and the arts are two of Dumont's greatest loves, she also has a passion for mechanical engineering and computer programming. She is a member of Mensa and participated in FIRST Robotics on a team sponsored by NASA/JPL and Walt Disney Imagineering. Today, Dumont remains passionate about mentoring youth associated with the program. While her current production schedule is demanding, Dumont is continuing her studies and is taking classes in engineering and programming. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her puppy Zoe.- Actress
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Tall (5'10"), lovely, statuesque Seattle native Jean Elizabeth Smart was born on September 13, 1951. The second of four children born to a teacher and his wife, she developed an early interest in acting and attended the University of Washington following her graduation from Seattle's Ballard High School. She attained a BA degree in fine arts there.
Jean's first professional season was with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she went on to perform in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten," among others. During the late 1970's she built up a strong resume in regional theater with such companies as the Seattle Repertory Theatre ("Equus," "Fallen Angels"), ACT ("A Christmas Carol"), Pittsburgh Public Theatre (as Lady Macbeth), Alaska Repertory Theatre ("Terra Nova"), and Alliance Theatre ("A History of the American Film"). Her first significant break came with a starring role in the potent, critically-acclaimed lesbian drama "Last Summer at Bluefish Cove," which earned her an Off-Broadway Drama Desk nomination in 1980. She capped this honor with a Los Angeles Drama Critics award in 1983 when she repeated her triumph on the West Coast.
Jean made a highly auspicious Broadway debut in 1981 playing Marlene Dietrich in "Piaf" starring Jane Lapotaire, and it was the subsequent TV taping of that show, Piaf (1984), that brought about major Hollywood interest. A regular on the short-lived sitcoms Teachers Only (1982), Reggie (1983) and Maximum Security (1984), Jean hit pure gold in her fourth attempt as the delightfully ditzy Charlene Frazier on Designing Women (1986). The show was an instant hit and it was here that she would meet future husband Richard Gilliland, who played the recurring role of co-player Annie Potts' boyfriend J.D. for several seasons.
Feeling confined and fearing typecasting, Jean left the show in 1991 to find more challenging work. She drew major acclaim, giving a chilling portrayal of a true-to-life serial killer in the TV movie Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story (1992), long before Charlize Theron copped an Oscar for her equally chilling cinematic version. In other TV movies, Jean earned strong applause for her roles as a mentally challenged woman in The Yarn Princess (1994); as a concerned rural mother in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic The Yearling (1994); as an attorney involved in a high-profile murder case in Undue Influence (1996); as a wife who discovers her longtime husband is gay in A Change of Heart (1998); co-starring with real-life husband Richard Gilliland in Audrey's Rain (2003) as new parents after her sister commits suicide; and as an FBI profiler in Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong (2003).
On stage, Jean she earned a Tony nomination for her delightfully madcap part in the Moss Hart/George S. Kaufman classic comedy farce "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opposite Nathan Lane. The Broadway show was later made as a TV movie, The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000), with both Lane and Smart.
Having made her debut with a small role in the crimer Hoodlums (1980), films would never be as strong a venue for Jean as the stage or TV. She did, however, show off her versatility in both comedy and drama with secondary roles with such films as Flashpoint (1984), the Goldie Hawn vehicle Protocol (1984), Fire with Fire (1986), Project X (1987), Mistress (1992), Edie & Pen (1996) and The Odd Couple II (1998). Jean topped the decade off well with two independent films -- earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her role as Sarah Polley's ill-natured mother in Guinevere (1999), and first-billed in the mother/daughter road trip dramedy Forever Fabulous (1999) co-starring Jennifer Elise Cox.
Remaining extremely busy into the millennium, Jean went on to win bookend Emmy awards for her guest appearances on the sitcom Frasier (1993) and earned two more Emmy nominations for her potent perms in the crime drama 24 (2001) starring Kiefer Sutherland. She also graced a host of other series with regular/recurring roles on the romantic comedy In-Laws (2002); the crimer The District (2000); the family comedy Center of the Universe (2004) (co-starring John Goodman); the animated program Kim Possible (2002) (as the voice of Dr. Ann Possible); the mystery comedy Samantha Who? (2007) starring Christina Applegate; the revamped crimer Hawaii Five-0 (2010) (as the governor); the crime dramedy Harry's Law (2011); the dark thriller Fargo (2014); the action sci-fi drama Legion (2017); and the detective series Mare of Easttown (2021).
More recent films include Youth in Revolt (2009), Barry Munday (2010), Hope Springs (2012), Waking (2013), Warren (2014), Miss Meadows (2014), The Accountant (2016), Life Itself (2018) and Brampton's Own (2018).
Diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 13, Jean has played an active part over the years in public awareness. She has two children with her late husband Richard, son Connor and adopted son (from China) Forrest.- Actor
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Rainn Wilson lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fiction writer
Holiday Reinhorn (Big Cats), and his
son, Walter McKenzie Wilson who was born in 2004. He grew up in
Seattle, Washington but graduated from New Trier H.S. in Winnetka,
Illinois. After attending both Tufts University and the University of
Washington, Rainn studied acting at NYU's graduate acting program and
spent years doing theater both on and off-Broadway, on tours with the
Acting Company and in region theatre including The Guthrie and Arena
Stage.
Rainn co-created and directed The New Bozena, a sketch comedy and
post-modern clown show which performed in New York and ended up doing a
pilot presentation at Fox TV. He made his directorial debut with The New Bozena (2005), a
short film based on the show.
After many years of working in TV and film, his breakthrough role
happened, as Arthur, the odd love interest to the much older
Frances Conroy on
Six Feet Under (2001). His
favorite role to date, however, is Bill Harris in the film,
Baadasssss! (2003).
Rainn is a member of the Baha'i Faith.- Actress
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Constance Zimmer started in the theater and was the recipient of a "Best Actress" Dramalogue Award, for one of her
first stage appearances in "Catholic School Girls".
She is well-known for playing a number of standout characters in notable projects. Starting in 2005, and for six seasons, she played the role of "Dana Gordon' on HBO's critically acclaimed series "Entourage," she reprised that role when Warner Bros. released the "Entourage" film on the big screen in 2015.
Her most awarded role was when she starred in Lifetime's drama series "UnReal," which premiered in 2015. Constance was nominated for an Emmy and won the Critics Choice award for her portrayal of "Quinn" the executive producer of a fictional dating show. The show also won a Peabody, among many other awards it received during it's 4 season run. Zimmer was also seen in multiple seasons of the Netflix Emmy® nominated original series "House of Cards," executive produced by David Fincher, while recurring in, HBO's "The Newsroom," executive produced by Aaron Sorkin.
Zimmer most recently has directed 5 episodes of Television and can also be seen in "Big Sky" and "The Calling" both created by David E. Kelley, which reunited them as she was also a series lead on ABC's Boston Legal, earning her another SAG Award nomination for ensemble cast. As well as a series lead on the show "Condor" for and has had major recurring roles on "Good Trouble," "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D," "A Million Little Things," "Grey's Anatomy," "Shameless," "The New Adventures of Old Christine," to name a few.
Zimmer's feature film credits include "Run the Tide" with Taylor Lautner, "The Babymakers" opposite Paul Schneider and Olivia Munn; "Results" with Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders, which premiered in 2015 at The Sundance Film Festival; "Demoted" opposite Sean Astin and Michael Vartan, and the Warner Bros. feature "Chaos Theory" starring Ryan Reynolds and Emily Mortimer.
You can hear her voice as a series lead in "Transformers: Robots in Disguise," as well as various episodes of "BoJack Horseman," "Shadow Dairies," "Krapopolis," "Wonder Woman: Bloodlines" and "Angel of Vine."
She resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Russ, an Emmy award winning director, and their daughter.- Actress
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Jennifer Lee Taylor is an American actress who is known for her voice acting contributions to video games and cartoons. She voiced Cortana and Dr. Catherine Halsey in the Halo franchise and voiced Princess Peach, Toad and Toadette in Nintendo's Super Mario franchise. She also provided voice work for the Microsoft Cortana artificial intelligence.- Actress
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Megyn Price is one of the more familiar faces in the world of television sitcoms. A gifted college student with a mind for figures, Price initially embarked on a career in finance, before making the jump to acting. Her television debut on the final season episode, Liberation - October 16, 1968 (1993), of the sci-fi adventure, Quantum Leap (1989) (NBC, 1989-1993), soon led to more TV guest spots and a regular cast role on the exceptionally short-lived legal sitcom, Common Law (1996) (ABC, 1996). Although Price occasionally picked up smaller parts in feature films, like the Russell Crowe vehicle, Mystery, Alaska (1999), it was on the small screen that she truly excelled. While another co-starring role on the Al Franken sitcom, LateLine (1998) (NBC, 1998-2000), lasted a mere two seasons, Price's turn as thirty-something mom "Claudia Finnerty" on the family comedy, Grounded for Life (2001) (The WB, 2001-05), helped establish her as a recognizable screen presence. Surrounded by a popular ensemble cast, that included Patrick Warburton and David Spade, she enjoyed her lengthiest series run on the relationship sitcom, Rules of Engagement (2007) as matrimonial veteran, "Audrey Bingham".- Actress
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Bianca Kajlich was born on 26 March 1977 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Bring It On (2000) and Dark Was the Night (2014). She has been married to Mike Catherwood since 16 December 2012. They have one child. She was previously married to Landon Donovan.- Actor
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Dylan Arnold was born on 11 February 1994 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Halloween (2018), Oppenheimer (2023) and You (2018).- Actor
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Beau Mirchoff was born on Friday the 13th of January, 1989, in Seattle,
Washington. Two days later, he moved to his family's home in Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada, on Vancouver Island. His father Bill, is a
podiatrist from California and his mother Kelley, is a full-time
homemaker from Washington State. Beau started training as an actor at
the age of 13 in Vancouver, British Columbia. This required him to take
a two hour ferry-boat venture from Vancouver Island to the mainland of
British Columbia, and ride the bus an hour into the city. He did this
every week until moving to Los Angeles in February of 2009 where Beau
began training at the Michael Woolson Studio - the same studio he
trains at today. In 2009 Beau landed the role of Danny Bolen on ABC's
Desperate Housewives. In 2010 he snagged the role of Matty Mckibben on
MTV's Awkward; he won a Teen Choice Award in 2012 for this portrayal.
During the hiatuses from television Mirchoff focuses on the theatre: in
2012 he portrayed Treat in a production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans at
the Hudson Theatre; in 2013 he played Kent in Neil Labute's Reason's to
be Pretty at the MW Theatre. Other notable films include: Scary Movie
4, The Grudge 3, I am Number 4, and Poker Night alongside Ron Perlman,
Giancarlo Esposito, Titus Welliver, and Ron Eldard.- Actress
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The multi-talented Maiara Walsh is an actress, director, writer, singer, and artist. Born in Seattle, Washington to a Brazilian mother and American father, Maiara took an interest in music and the arts at a young age, diving into every creative outlet offered by her school and outside creative programs.
She got her start as an actress in 2006, on Disney Channel's Cory in the House. Over the years, she continued working on hit shows such as The Vampire Diaries, Desperate Housewives, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Switched at Birth, The Last Ship, Criminal Minds, Notorious, Zombieland, and Good Trouble. She moved to Brazil in 2022 to play a role in acclaimed Brazilian series, Reis.
Maiara's insatiable creativity and curiosity inspired her to start writing feature films and television scripts. In 2017 she directed her first narrative sci-fi short film, Young Blood. The short played at various film festivals and she won Best Director at Jelly Film Festival in Los Angeles. She wrote two supernatural series for Popstar's online platform, and has multiple TV and film scripts in development.
In 2023, she finished production on her directorial debut in a psychological thriller starring "Dahmer" actor Cameron Cowperthwaite, whom she penned the script with, as well as actor and producer Mark Hapka "23 Blast" and actress Maya Stojan "NCIS" and "Hunt Club".
Throughout her acting career she continued her passion for music. She built a 7 piece jazz band in 2012 and created a 30 person immersive music show called Dream. She released an EP with a Brazilian producer from São Paulo in 2023.
Maiara is an imaginative visionary, a pioneer, a philanthropist, and a creative collaborator at heart.- Actress
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Born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington, in 1911, but called
Louise from early childhood, Gypsy Rose Lee was the daughter of a
mild-mannered businessman and a restless, fiery young woman named Rose,
who was determined to get out of Seattle and make a life for herself
and her daughter in show business. In 1912, Rose had another child,
June. Rose thought June was much more beautiful, photogenic and
talented than Louise apparently could ever hope to be, which soon
caused her to pack up her two children and search for a career in
vaudeville (she divorced her husband when he objected to a career in
show business). By the time Louise was seven and June five, they had
put together a very successful act, Baby June and Her Farmboys. June
was, of course, the star, and Louise was put in the chorus, though she
did get an occasional moment in the spotlight. The act was making $1500
a week, but the family was not exactly living in high style, having to
scrimp and save much of the time in order to buy food, and often in
debt. There are many who believe that Rose was squandering the money.
There were also rumors about Rose during this time, about how she had
to dodge the police, who enforced strict child labor laws, and even
about how she may have murdered a man she thought was pestering her
children. Despite these rumors, June and Louise's act continued to be
successful throughout the 1920s. At the end of the decade June was 13
and had been re-christened Dainty June. By this time it was clear that
vaudeville was a dying art form. Rose, however, still chased after her
dream, and still made June up to be a cute baby. June resented it, and
finally she married one of the chorus boys in the act (she was still
only 13) and ran away with him. Not even this could stop Rose, however.
This time she formed a new act, centering it around Louise. Called Rose
Louise and Her Hollywood Blondes, she and her chorus girls performed
slightly risqué musical numbers, and were moderately successful. Still,
vaudeville continued to die out, which hurt the act. However, there was
one form of vaudeville that still drew crowds: burlesque. Eventually,
Rose, Louise and company had to take a job in a burlesque house.
Sometime during their stay there the star stripper was not able to go
on for a performance. Rose, never one to pass up an opportunity,
volunteered Louise for the job. So Louise, just 15 at the time, stepped
on stage, wearing not much more than a grass skirt, and slowly and
teasingly . . . didn't take much off. Audiences responded favorably to
this new kind of striptease act, which was more "tease" than "strip,"
more tantalizing than tawdry. Louise had finally found her calling.
For her stage name she took Gypsy, a nickname she derived from her
hobby of reading tea leaves, and combined it with her real first name,
Rose, and Lee, which she added on a whim. As Gypsy Rose Lee she
launched a hugely successful career in burlesque, incorporating humor
and intelligence, as well as the requisite removal of various articles
of clothing, into her act. She became extremely popular, even appearing
at the last place anyone would expect, high society balls. Once she had
conquered the stages of burlesque, she decided to try her hand at
movies. Billed under her real name, Louise Hovick--because the studio
heads were afraid her stage name would scare people away--she made her
film debut in
Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937).
It was a forgettable film, and her performance wasn't much more
memorable. She appeared in three more films in the 1930s, and two more
in the 1940s, but her film career was pretty much a bust. She tried her
hand at writing with the "burlesque mystery" novel "The G-String
Murders" (1941), which was made into the film
Lady of Burlesque (1943),
starring Barbara Stanwyck. By the
1950s, however, she was comfortable just being a sort of queen mother
of burlesque. She had gone through three unhappy marriages, as well as
affairs with showman Mike Todd
and director Otto Preminger; the latter
was the father of her only child,
Erik Lee Preminger. She was not close
to her sister June, who by this time had changed her name and was known
as actress/dancer June Havoc. She also still
had to contend with Mama Rose, who constantly tried to extort money
from her with vicious threats. It wasn't until Rose died from terminal
cancer in 1954 that Gypsy truly felt safe to write her memoirs, without
having to worry anymore about her mother's repercussions. Her
autobiography, "Gypsy", was published in 1957. Detailing her childhood
in vaudeville and her relationship with her mother. It was an immediate
bestseller. Broadway producers also noticed it and decided it would
make a great musical, and so was born what many consider the best
Broadway musical of all time: "Gypsy". With book by
Arthur Laurents, music by
Jule Styne and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim, it premiered in 1959
and was an immediate smash. However, though Gypsy was an important
character, of course, it did not focus on her alone, but rather on the
hard-boiled, driven, single-minded, even monstrous stage mother that
was Mama Rose.
This time it was Rose who was the star, which, as the musical implies,
was perhaps what she always wanted. The musical has been frequently
revived and been made into two films. The role of Mama Rose has been
played by, among others, Ethel Merman,
Angela Lansbury,
Tyne Daly,
Bette Midler and
Betty Buckley. Gypsy Rose Lee was
able to enjoy the musical's success in her last years. She had appeared
in three films in the 1950s, and made three more in the 1960s,
including a cameo in, of all films, the family comedy
The Trouble with Angels (1966),
opposite Hayley Mills and
Rosalind Russell, who played
Mama Rose in the first screen version of the play,
Gypsy (1962). The real Gypsy even hosted
two incarnations of her own talk show. She died of cancer in 1970. Even
if her film career wasn't spectacular, she was immortalized on the
stage of both burlesque and Broadway.- Actress
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Alison Sudol is an actress, musician and author based in Los Angeles. Alongside a successful music career, Alison starred in the two-time Golden Globe-winning Amazon hit 'Transparent', USA network's 'DIG' from the creators of 'Homeland' and 'Heroes' and Rafael Palacio's show 'The Force'. Alison plays Queenie in the new Harry Potter spin-off 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'.- Producer
- Actor
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It's not surprising that Ryan Stiles would feel comfortable doing a
comedic turn in the role of Lewis, one of
Drew Carey's ever-present friends in the new
comedy
The Drew Carey Show (1995).
After all, the first job Stiles ever had was that of a stand-up
comedian. Although he was a good student, Stiles admits that "being a
high-school senior gave me too much freedom." He got so carried away
with his flexible schedule that he quit school a few months shy of
graduation and got a job doing stand-up comedy in Vancouver. Despite
his parents' objections, he was able to support himself for several
years, but "I got out of stand-up when everybody else started doing
it," he says. He didn't stray too far from the world of comedy. In 1986
he joined the highly acclaimed Second City comedy ensemble in Toronto,
where he honed his improvisational skills. In 1990 Stiles moved to Los
Angeles to perform with the Los Angeles Second City group. Film and
television roles soon followed, including roles in
Hot Shots! (1991) and
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).
Stiles's television credits include
Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990),
Mad About You (1992), and
cable's The Hitchhiker (1983).
He's currently a series regular on the British improvisational series
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988),
which has been nominated for three CableACE awards. During the 1994-95
baseball strike, Stiles and acclaimed director
Joe Pytka made some memorable commercials for
Nike. That's Stiles in the empty baseball stadium doing the wave solo.
When he's not at work, Stiles spends his time thinking about work.- Actress
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Caroline McWilliams was born on 4 April 1945 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Mermaids (1990), Benson (1979) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990). She was married to Michael Keaton. She died on 11 February 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Carol Channing was born January 31, 1921, at Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a prominent newspaper editor, who was very active in the Christian Science movement. She attended high school in San Francisco and later worked as a model in Los Angeles. She attended prestigious Bennington College in Vermont and majored in drama and dance and supplemented her work by taking parts in nearby Pocono Resort area. Carol initially made her mark on Broadway in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" playing Lorelei Lee. In "Hello Dolly" she played Dolly Gallagher Levi, the witty, manipulative widow intent upon finding a wealthy husband. The musical won ten Tony awards in 1964, including Channing's for best actress in a comedy. Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children made their first public appearance after President John F. Kennedy's death by seeing her perform in "Hello Dolly" and later visited her backstage. She appeared in the film Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Her son Channing Carson is a Pulitizer Prize-nominated finalist cartoonist and she continued to practice her Christian Science religion.- Actress
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Funny, adorable Lori Tan Chinn is a prolific theater house actress. Since the early 1980s she has played in minor yet memorable on-camera roles, particularly supporting Roseanne Barr in Susan Seidelman's dark comedy film She-Devil (1989), as Iris the hairdresser in the second season of Roseanne (1988), and as the persistent and vulgar waitress in the Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) 'eat cookie' scene.- Josie Bissett is recognized internationally for her role as the popular 'Jane Mancini' on FOX-TV's "Melrose Place," which ended its successful seven-year run in May 1999. To date, she has graced over 50 magazine covers, including such publications as TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Shape's Fit Pregnancy and New Woman.
She appeared for five seasons on ABC Family Channel's hit breakout teen-pregnancy drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," created and executive produced by Brenda Hampton ("7th Heaven"). Josie played 'Kathleen Bowman,' mother to good girl 'Grace' (Megan Park).
Josie recently starred as 'Sonia Clifton,' a veterinarian who discovers that her husband is having an affair, in telefilm "Pregnant at 17." She also had a starring role in "A Mother's Instinct," both for Lifetime.
She previously starred opposite James Brolin in Hallmark Movie Channels' first-ever original holiday movie, "Christmas with Tucker," which premiered in late 2013 as part of their "Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas" new holiday initiative. "Christmas with Tucker" is the Most Watched Hallmark Movie Channel Original Premiere among HH's and W25-54 in network history! Josie also starred opposite Matthew Settle in the original Christmas film "Paper Angels," which premiered on UP TV in November 2014.
Her first children's book, "Tickle Monster," became a national sensation which got kids and parents to laugh, laugh, laugh! "Tickle Monster" is an inspiring and beautifully illustrated storybook for kids, based on a treasured family tradition that Josie has continued with her own kids. Fuzzy 'Tickle Monster' mitts, an interactive companion piece to the book, are available and packaged in an adorable gift set. Parents can wear the gloves to tickle their children while reading along to the clever text.
"Tickle Monster" and publisher Compendium, Inc. were awarded the PTPA (Parent Tested Parent Approved) Media Inc.'s Seal of Approval for excellence in parenting products. "Tickle Monster" earned the Publisher's Choice Award from the Family Magazine Group, and Josie was named Celebrity Mom of the Year" by the Mom's Choice Awards (MCA), an annual awards program that recognizes authors, inventors, companies and parents for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media, products and services. Josie and her children were also featured on the cover of MCA's Entro magazine. Josie's ability to offer parenting advice and bring laughter in the lives of families, along with her mission to live life as a whole team and balanced person, made her the perfect choice for the Mom's Choice Team.
As a follow up to the highly successful "Tickle Monster," Josie has written her second children's book, "Boogie Monster," and both titles are currently available in major book stores. With a loveable new character from Planet Boogie whose only mission is to inspire kids to dance, dance, dance, "Boogie Monster" teaches kids that there's no right or wrong way to dance. In the process, kids build confidence and have fun exercising. Also available is a complete dance kit (packaged in a colorful, reusable keepsake gift box with magnetic closure), which includes a "Boogie Monster" book, a pair of Boogie Monster Legs Leggings and a full-length Boogie Monster music CD by Recess Monkey. The "Boogie Monster" Dance Kit was the recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award, honoring excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. In addition, the Dance Kit won the Moonbeam Gold Medal at the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards.
Josie's first book, "Little Bits Of Wisdom," was inspired by the birth of her first child in 2001 and is now in its third printing. It is a heart-warming collection of parenting wisdom and child-rearing "tricks of the trade" gathered from more than 1,000 parents and grandparents throughout the world. Two years later, she completed a second book, "Making Memories," which featured over 200 ways for parents to create rich family memories with their children that last a lifetime. Tens of thousands of parents have already embraced this magical book, the premise of which is so simple and powerful: The moments with our children pass so quickly, but the memories we create today will last forever.
The Seattle native began her career in front of the camera at the age of 12 as a model in print advertisements and television commercials. At 16, she left home and moved to Japan to further her career and at 17 headed to Hollywood to make her mark.
Josie soon landed the role of 'Cara' on "The Hogan Family," where she spent two seasons. Within two years of her arrival in Los Angeles, Josie was cast on "Melrose Place" and quickly became one of television's most recognizable actors. In recent years, she has had the opportunity to explore many diverse and interesting characters in such projects as the ABC movies "The Fire Above" and "Dare to Love," the FOX telefilm "Deadly Vows" and the USA cable film "Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear." She starred in the ABC Family Channel original film "I Do, They Don't," a romantic comedy about two widowed parents whose spontaneous marriage thrusts them into the position of having to blend two families into one. In addition, Josie starred in the Lifetime Television original film "The Other Woman," based on the best-selling novel by Joy Fielding and directed by Jason Priestley. She has also made numerous guest-starring appearances including NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
On the big screen, she made her feature film debut in Oliver Stone's "The Doors," in which she played the wife of Doors' guitarist Robbie Krieger. Her subsequent films include the coming-of-age comedy "Book of Love" and the psychological thriller "Mikey."
In addition to acting, Josie has hosted numerous shows. She most recently co-hosted Lifetime Television's morning talk show, "The Balancing Act." She previously hosted "Parenting & Beyond," a show that offered parents creative solutions to everyday problems, so that they can have more quality time to enjoy their family and watch their children growing up. She also hosted the PBS educational special, "Teach More, Love More," which followed four families, each with a child in one of the four critical stages of early childhood development -- newborn, infancy, toddlerhood and preschool. As host, Josie guided viewers through the program which explores the joys, fears and a myriad of questions that accompany the beginning of life. "Teach More, Love More" included interviews with nationally renowned experts such as Dr. T. Berry Brazelton.
Josie has been the face of several national commercial campaigns, including Neutrogena's skin care line and Dr. Scholl's Pedicure Essentials, an entire line of 14 different products designed to pamper the feet. Additionally, she was a spokesperson for Murad Skin Care's Resurgence® Regimen, the first comprehensive line of products formulated exclusively to help revitalize and rebuild hormonally aging skin.
Josie resides in Seattle with her children, 16-year-old son Mason and 13-year-old daughter Maya. She is working on her next children's book. - Actress
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- Producer
Ann Reinking was born on November 10, 1949, in Seattle, Washington. Renowned more for her dancing than acting, Reinking has danced in many Broadway shows. She made her film debut in Movie Movie (1978) and the following year starred opposite Roy Scheider and Jessica Lange in the Bob Fosse biopic All That Jazz (1979), which won many Oscar nominations -- including a nod for Best Picture of 1979. Reinking was charming as Grace Farrell, the sympathetic and devoted secretary to grouchy Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney) in John Huston's Annie (1982), in which she sang the songs "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here", "We Got Annie" and "Let's Go To The Movies." Her best performance was also in her last film to date in Blake Edwards' brilliant 1984 comedy Micki + Maude (1984), in which Dudley Moore plays a bigamist with two pregnant wives -- workaholic attorney Micki (Reinking) and laid-back cellist Maude (Amy Irving). After that, Ann Reinking never acted in another motion picture. She was married to financier Herbert Allen for a time, and only popped up sporadically on television and on the stage. Her big Broadway comeback occurred in the early 1990s with Chicago, which won her a well-deserved Tony Award for Best Choreography.- Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1922, as Solomon Krakovsky, to Russian
Jewish immigrants, Hill became interested in the theater as a little
boy. After graduation from high school, he served in the Naval Reserve
(1940-44). From there, he worked alongside a young, unknown star
Marlon Brando in "A Flag is Born." His
real acting debut came about in 1950, when he co-starred opposite
Hedy Lamarr in
A Lady Without Passport (1950),
and his career took off from there.
For the rest of the 1950s and 1960s, he co-starred in B-movies such as:
The Goddess (1958),
Kiss Her Goodbye (1959),
A Child Is Waiting (1963),
The Slender Thread (1965).
Hill also became a leading character actor guest-starring in a wide
variety of shows such as:
Schlitz Playhouse (1951),
Danger (1950),
Playwrights '56 (1955),
Studio One (1948),
Playhouse 90 (1956),
Naked City (1958),
Espionage (1963),
Dr. Kildare (1961),
Ben Casey (1961), among many
others. Another guest-starring role on
Rawhide (1959), led him to starring
on
Mission: Impossible (1966).
Though the series lasted seven seasons, Hill was not pleased with his
role because he refused to abide by the production schedule that
required working on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, being an Orthodox
Jew. Hill was fired after 1 season, and was replaced in the series by
Peter Graves. After his firing, he
went on a sabbatical from acting, to focus on selling homes in real
estate, hence he moved to New York.
After his long absence from acting, he returned to the small screen
with the TV mini-series, King (1978).
The 1980s saw Hill returning to the box office, co-starring in such
blockbuster films such as:
It's My Turn (1980), opposite
Jill Clayburgh and
Michael Douglas,
Eyewitness (1981),
Yentl (1983),
Garbo Talks (1984), opposite
Anne Bancroft and
Carrie Fisher,
On Valentine's Day (1986), and
it's sequel, Courtship (1987), he
played a Mafia Don in
Arnold Schwarzenegger's another
blockbuster film, Raw Deal (1986), then,
in a blockbuster ten movie
Running on Empty (1988),
followed by The Boost (1988),
White Palace (1990), and one of the
last films, Billy Bathgate (1991).
In the 1990s, at 68, after a 23-year-absence from the small screen, he
reestablished his career, as the last minute replacement for a starring
role in Law & Order (1990), where
he played the role of a pragmatic District Attorney, Adam Schiff, a
character whom everyone grew to love. Despite not appearing in the
pilot episode of the series, he quickly became one of Hollywood's
likable and bankable stars, where he often had scenes, that were
filmed, only in court. His co-stars on the show consisted of actors who
have also made bankable names like Hill himself like
Chris Noth, former
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
alumnae, S. Epatha Merkerson,
Sam Waterston, and newcomers
Jill Hennessy and
Benjamin Bratt. On
Law & Order (1990) he was also
nominated for Emmies twice, but did not win. The entire cast was
shocked when, in 2000, he left his role to enjoy his retirement. Before
then, the entire cast appeared with Hill on
Larry King Live (1985), to
say goodbye to a legendary star. - Actor
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Handsome, chisel-jawed character actor Kevin McCarthy appeared in
nearly 100 movies in a career that spanned seven decades. He also had
some starring roles, most notably the horror cult classic
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
He played the disillusioned son Biff Loman in the 1951 screen
adaptation of Arthur Miller's
classic
Death of a Salesman (1951),
for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and won
the Golden Globe Award for most promising newcomer (male).
He is the younger brother of the late author
Mary McCarthy and distant cousin
of former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate
Eugene McCarthy.
McCarthy was orphaned at the age of four when both his parents died in
the great flu epidemic of 1918. He was raised by his father's parents
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and later by an uncle and aunt. He graduated
from Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in
1932. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, in 1933, intending to enter into the
diplomatic field. He also attended the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, in 1936 and the Actors Studio New York, New York. He had
roles in two short-lived TV series:
The Survivors (1969), with
Lana Turner, and
Flamingo Road (1980) as Claude
Weldon, the father of the character played by
Morgan Fairchild.
The stage-trained McCarthy frequently appeared on Broadway. He starred
as Jerry in "Two for the Seesaw" (1959) and as Van Ackerman in "Advise
and Consent" (1960). He also played President
Harry S. Truman in the one-man show
"Give 'Em Hell, Harry!"
McCarthy showed no signs of retiring as late as June 2007. McCarthy
acted in the film
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012),
playing the role of the Grand Inquisitor, at age 93, which was finally
released in 2011. He died of pneumonia on September 11, 2010.- Ivyann Schwan was born on 14 November 1983 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Parenthood (1989), Problem Child 2 (1991) and Parenthood (1990).
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- Producer
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Richard Karn was born on February 17, 1956, in Seattle, Washington, the son of Gene and Louise Wilson. He has a sister named Sue. His birth name was Richard Karn Wilson, but he shortened it to Richard Karn because there was already a Richard Wilson registered with the Screen Actors Guild. He did his first acting in the fifth grade and was very active in drama in high school. He spent six months in England and attended the University of Washington, graduating in 1979 with a degree in drama. During his career, Richard has performed in many off-Broadway
productions. His filmography includes 11 feature films and several made-for-TV movies and television series, including 8 years as Al Borland on Home Improvement with Tim Allen.- Actress
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Lauren is an award winning comedic actress, playwright and author. Her
first show, HOMECOMING began as a 15 minute performance art piece at
Seattle's On the Boards and went on to go off-Broadway in NYC. BUST,
about her work in the LA county jail was awarded a Macdowell fellowship
for playwriting by the Alpert Awards as well as several 'best of the
arts' across the nation. She has written and performed 9 solo plays.
HOMECOMING, AMSTERDAM, IF ORNAMENTS HAD LIPS, HUU, RASH, WRECKAGE,
BUST, NO...YOU SHUTUP-a piece commissioned by Boise Contemporary
Theater and directed by Jeff Weatherford. Most recently THE PEOPLE'S
REPUBLIC OF PORTLAND for Portland Center Stage. Her television credits
include The Daily Show, True Blood, United States of Tara, Reno 911,
Curb Your Enthusiasm, New Girl, Arrested Development, Horny Patty on
HBO's HUNG. Film credits include Imagine That, Date Night and Judd
Apatows "A Five Year Engagement" starring Jason Segal. Weedman's first
book, A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: (Tales from a Life of Cringe),
is a collection of comedic essays and was named by Kirkus Review as a
top ten Indie book for 2007 and currently she is working on a second
book of essays about for Plume due out 2014. Weedman lives in Santa
Monica and is the host of the popular Moth Storytelling series in LA.- Actress
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Susan Buckner was born on 28 January 1953 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Grease (1978), Deadly Blessing (1981) and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976). She was previously married to Michael R. Josephs.- Actor
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Marcus Chong began as a child actor in Roots: The Next Generations (1979) as Frankie Warner where he met Alex Haley. He then went on to work on Little House on the Prairie (1974), starring Michael Landon . As a young adult, he appeared on Broadway in "Stand Up Tragedy", and won a Theater World Award. In film, he debuted in Jeff Bridges's American Heart (1992) about street kids in Seattle. He went on to perform in "Panther", written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Chong portrayed Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panthers. Marcus filmed The Matrix (1999). Chong has been performing his up and coming new productions on stage in NY as Alexander Dumas, author of the "Three Musketeers" and the "Count of Monte Cristo". Chong portrayed Harry Belafonte in Not 4 Sale (2013) and appeared in the USC film Son Shine (2013). He also appeared on such television shows as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and Burn Notice (2007).- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Coming from a musical family - her mother was a concert soprano -
Constance Cummings made her show business debut in 1926 in regional
stock theater, and by 1928 had appeared in her first Broadway play. Her
success in the theater resulted in an invitation to Hollywood, where
she went 1931. Although she played in more than 20 films, she was never
really comfortble in Hollywood nor satisfied with the parts she was
getting, and in 1934 she left for England, UK. She continued her stage
and film career there. but few of those films ever made it back to the
U.S.- Actress
Jean was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1923. She graduated from
Franklin High School in Los Angeles in 1941. Soon, Jean was working as
a model for a local clothing firm. Later, she was a dancer with the
Earl Carroll Theatre. Jean got married to Dexter Benner, and they had a
daughter, Christine, in 1944. Two years later, in 1946, she had a
bitter court battle with her ex-husband regarding the custody of their
young daughter. In 1948, ruling a daughter's place is with her mother,
a judge awarded full custody to Jean. Sultry and statuesque, Jean, a
divorced mother and nightclub dancer, struggled to make it as an
actress; she was a bit player and uncredited extra in movies and early
television. In 1949, she met Kirk Douglas on the set of
Young Man with a Horn (1950),
which was released February 9, 1950. On October 7, 1949, when she was 3
months pregnant, she disappeared. A note was found in her purse that
read: "Kirk, Can't wait any longer. Going to see Dr. Scott. It will
work best this way while mother is away." All the police found was her
purse and this cryptic note -- Jean had vanished without a trace. Her
disappearance is still an unsolved mystery.- Writer
- Actress
- Producer
Carrie Brownstein was born on September 27, 1974 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is a founding member of the rock band Sleater-Kinney, and was formerly in the band Excuse 17. Alongside Fred Armisen, she is the writer, actress and co-developer of the sketch comedy show Portlandia (2011) on IFC TV.- Actor
- Producer
- Composer
Brian Stokes Mitchell was born on 31 October 1957 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Prince of Egypt (1998), tick, tick... BOOM! (2021) and Ghost Dad (1990). He has been married to Allyson Tucker since 3 September 1994. They have one child.- Actress
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As a child she studied at Seattle's Cornish School. Still in her early
twenties, after several years of stock work in New York, she joined Eva
Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater where she won critical praise
for her title role in "Alice in Wonderland." She came to Hollywood in
1934 under contract with Warners, debuting in Happiness Ahead (1934). She
co-starred with Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and
played in many small roles, both in films - e.g., the phony U.N.
ambassador's wife in North by Northwest (1959) - and television: The Twilight Zone (1959),
Gunsmoke (1955), and Perry Mason (1957) in the fifties and sixties. She died at
Manhattan's Florence Nightingale Nursing Home, aged 94.- Actor
- Writer
- Stunts
If you want to meet a real-life super hero, Michael O'Hearn is the
closest human alive that fits that description.. A Four-time Mr.
Universe, O'Hearn has graced the covers of over 470 magazines worldwide
earning him the title of 7-time Fitness Male Model of the Year and
putting that title in retirement.
O'Hearn is a champion with a resume a mile long. You can see him as
Team Captain Titan in American Gladiators. In addition to 4-time Mr.
Natural Universe titles, O'Hearn is also a 4-time Power Lifting
Champion, and Iron Warrior: Decathlon of Strength Strongman Champion.
He is a well-rounded athlete with a background in natural bodybuilding,
strongman, power lifting, and martial arts. Women around the world will
recognize O'Hearn as the cover model for Topaz romance novels.
A life-long proponent of the natural approach to bodybuilding and life,
O'Hearn authored "Proven Techniques for Drug-Free Bodybuilders" to
inspire and teach the next generation of weightlifters and bodybuilders
that you can achieve success without the use of enhancers such as
steroids or growth hormones.
Known as an unquestionably qualified fitness expert, O'Hearn trains high profile clients from
Hollywood executives to heavy hitters nationwide.
O'Hearn grew up on a farm in Kirkland, WA, and comes from a large
family of 9 siblings of which he is the youngest of 5 boys. He began
competing in bodybuilding at the age of 15 when he won the Teenage
Washington State competition. In college, O'Hearn was a 3-time All-State
Defensive Tackle and All American football player.
O'Hearn is tackling writing, producing, and directing his own movie
about a character who discovers he is a superhero. O'Hearn has a
leading role in National Lampoon's TV-The Movie. Other films include
Barbarian and Keeper of Time. Upcoming film projects due to be released
in Spring 2008 include Tumblers and Captain Ultimate.- At a very young age, Mary-Charles Jones' family quickly noticed that she had an ability to captivate strangers with her outgoing personality. And at the ripe young age of 4, her family decided to bring her to an open call held by local agent Joy Pervis where she was immediately signed for both local representation and national representation through Osbrink.
Quickly Mary-Charles began booking in print, local, regional, and national commercials and television and film roles were soon to follow. Her first job in that capacity was a recurring role as "Caitlin Rowan" in the ABC drama October Road and it began to waterfall from there. Mary-Charles' ability to handle emotional story lines allowed for her to be cast in a heart wrenching episode of ABC's hit series Grey's Anatomy, she had the honor of working with Kevin Spacey in the film Father of Invention, and she was cast to play a young Miley Cyrus in a recurring capacity on Hannah Montana. More recently Mary-Charles was cast in a guest starring role opposite Zooey Deschanel in New Girl.
Mary-Charles had the opportunity to work with her sister Maggie Elizabeth Jones for the first time playing sisters in Paramount's remake of Footloose. They would get to do this again a few years later in Universal's Identity Thief opposite Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy.
Mary-Charles can also be seen as the lead role of Isabella in Walden Media's film Dear Dumb Diary, which is based on the Scholastic's popular children's book series by the same name.
Mary-Charles Jones was born on December 28, 2001 in Seattle, Washington. In Late 2002 Mary-Charles family relocated to Atlanta, Georgia where they still reside - Rachel Cook was born on 8 January 1995 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Kill Shot (2023), Succubus and The Hack Job (2021).
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- Art Department
After graduating from the University of Washington and working in the
theater community of Seattle, Henri Lubatti's first television
appearance was on the X-Files in Vancouver, Canada. He went on to work
on other locally filmed shows and the film Prefontaine. Henri Lubatti
moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and quickly started working in television
in recurring roles and as a guest star on shows such as: 24, Felicity,
ER, The Practice, and Dark Angel. His first series regular role was as
Ilija on the critically acclaimed Showtime series Sleeper Cell. His
latest recurring roles have been on Grimm and True Blood.
While Lubatti is best known for his dramatic roles and a special knack
for accents, playing Russians, Frenchmen, Italians, and Eastern
European roles, he also has strong comedic skills which were seen in
various television shows, the film Big Momma's House 3, and in the
highly acclaimed two-person stage production of The Comic with Larry
Miller.
Henri continues to pursue work in TV, film, and theater. He is an
active member of the Antaeus Theater company, frequently works with LA
TheaterWorks, and has been seen in plays at the Mark Taper Forum ( Los
Angeles), The Globe Theater (San Diego), and South Coast Rep
(Huntington Beach).
Native of the Pacific Northwest, Henri enjoys the outdoors and spends
his time hiking, biking, and skiing. A dual citizen of the US and
France, he spends as much time as possible with his family and friends
around the world.- Tamara Clatterbuck was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Criminal Minds (2005), The Young and the Restless (1973) and Days of Our Lives (1965). She was previously married to Alexander Farkas .
- One of the memorable purveyors of screen villainy in the '60s,
Theo graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in classical literature from
Stanford University and was at one time artist-in-residence. The son of
fur designer Theodore Meyer Marcuse (1893-1983), he served with distinction as a lieutenant aboard the USS Tirante during
World War II, earning himself a Silver Star and other citations for
bravery. After the war, he trained as an actor with the company of
Guthrie McClintic. Specializing in
Shakespearean roles, he made his Broadway debut in 1947 with
"Antony and Cleopatra" (as Demetrius) opposite Katharine Cornell.
He then appeared in
"Medea"' (1949) with Judith Anderson,
again staged and produced by McClintock; and
"King Richard II" (1951) with Betsy Blair
and Maurice Evans. At the 1959
Oregon Shakespearean Festival Theo acted in both "Twelfth Night"
and in "The Life and Death of King John"'.
His classical training stood him in good stead for the menacing roles
he was tasked to play on screen, added to which was his somewhat sinister,
bald-pated and shifty-eyed appearance. He also looked quite a bit older than his years may have suggested. Theo spent a long time serving his apprenticeship in smallish parts until he established a reputation as
a skilled dialectician, ideally cast as assorted eastern Europeans,
arrogant Nazi officers or crime figures of Arabic, Italian or Jewish
extraction. He frequently veered towards comedic interpretations of
villainy, notably for
Get Smart (1965) and
Hogan's Heroes (1965). His
Zoltan Schubach in the spy spoof
The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
(almost certainly a parody of Bond super villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld) may well have inspired the Austin Powers character Dr. Evil.
On occasion, Theo escaped his typecasting. He was particularly
effective as the sympathetic scientist Dr. Noel Markham in "The
Leeches", one of the best early episodes of
The Invaders (1967). He is particularly well-remembered as Korob, an extra-galactic life-form in
humanoid shape who captured several crew members of the Enterprise in
the Star Trek (1966) episode
"Catspaw"'.
Theo's life was tragically cut short at the age of 47 as a result of a
car crash while driving under the influence. - Actor
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A native of Seattle, Washington, Mankuma made Vancouver his home during the turbulent years of the Vietnam war. This unique actor with an easy grace on film despite his commanding six foot, 230 lb. girth, quickly established a following among producers and directors, building an impressive resume of film, television and theatre credits, and becoming one of Canada's busiest actors.
Blu Mankuma is also an avid musician, singer, songwriter and stage actor, who has provided voiceovers for radio and appeared in numerous television commercials. He and his family, including sons Rene and Cusee, reside in Vancouver.- The son of an Army officer, Walter Reed was born in Washington and grew
up in Honolulu and Los Angeles, where he attended school with the
children of movie stars. After his parents' divorce, and, during the
darkest days of the Depression, 17-year-old Reed decided to try acting
as a career and made a two-week trip to New York (via hitched rides on
railroad freight cars, amidst hobos and tramps) to look for work on the
stage. He worked in stock and on Broadway and, with an assist from
actor Joel McCrea, broke into pictures in the early 1940s. - Valora Noland was born Valor Baum in Seattle, Washington, Dec. 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor. Her parents moved to Santa Cruz, California, in 1943, and that is where she grew up. Following graduation from Santa Cruz High School, Valora attended the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts for one and one-half years until a talent scout introduced her to her first agent, Dick Clayton. This was the start of her Hollywood career, which began in January 1961. During the following seven years, she played a number of roles in films and television shows while continuing to study acting in various actors' workshops, headed up by Jeff Corey, Robert Gist and, finally, Sherman Marks. The three roles she thinks were her best (because they show different character types) are: "Vickie" in Sex and the College Girl (1964); "Duchess Victoria" in The Round Table Affair (1966); and "Amanda Harley" in The Girl on the Pinto (1967).
Valora left the business and the area in January 1968. - Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Writer
John Aylward was born on 7 November 1946 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Armageddon (1998), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) and Instinct (1999). He was married to Mary L Fields. He died on 16 May 2022 in Seattle, Washington, USA.- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of
Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a
seven-year contract with Paramount. In 1943, she was wrongfully
declared mentally incompetent and committed by her parents to a series
of asylums and public mental hospitals, leading to a false rumor that
she received a lobotomy. After seven years she was released, and spent
some of the remaining years of her life tending the parents who had
committed her and taking odd jobs. She appeared on
This Is Your Life (1950),
and then her own TV show,
Frances Farmer Presents (1958)
for six years. She died of cancer in 1970.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jimmy Wong is a Chinese American actor, director, host, and singer songwriter. Most recently, he starred in Wish Dragon (Sony Pictures Animation / Netflix) as the lead voice of "Din" alongside John Cho and Constance Wu. Prior to that, he played Ling in Disney's Mulan (2020). Jimmy is well known online for his work across YouTube and digital platforms, starring in the hit webseries Video Game High School (2012-2014), creating the cooking show Feast of Fiction to over 1 million subscribers, and cohosting the popular Magic the Gathering podcast The Command Zone and Game Knights.
Online, his content has been viewed over 300 million times across his numerous projects. He is the younger brother of popular director and creator Freddie Wong of RocketJump and Video Game High School. His content can be found all across the internet, representing the entertainment, geek, gaming, and cooking worlds.
Jimmy first became known after a racist incident at UCLA, when a sorority student posted a vlog ranting about Asians studying in the library, openly mocking their accent and language. Jimmy responded with the "Ching Chong, It Means I Love You" song, which garnered national attention and over 5 million views. Later that year, Jimmy created the cooking show Feast of Fiction, dedicated to bringing foods seen in movies, video games, cartoons, and TV shows to real life. In 2012, Jimmy starred as one of the three titular characters in the massively popular webseries Video Game High School for three seasons. In 2018, Jimmy was announced as a main cast member of Mulan (2020), playing the role of Ling, one of Mulan's friends in the army. In 2021, he starred as the lead voice in Sony Picture Animation's Wish Dragon, which was the #1 movie on Netflix throughout all of June.
Jimmy has hosted for a wide range of projects and has represented brands such as Disney XD, Nintendo, Riot Games, Wizards of the Coast, Food Network, Starbucks, PepsiCo, Showtime, Google, Lionsgate, Walmart, IGN, Bon Appetit, State Farm, Conagra, and more.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Miiko Taka came into the world as Betty Miiko Shikata in Seattle, Washington, a Nisei born of Japanese immigrant parentage. She spent much of her upbringing in Los Angeles. In 1942, Betty and her family were removed from their homes and interned in the Gila River War Relocation Centre in Arizona, a concentration camp which had been set up following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour. One of her fellow detainees was the actor Pat Morita. Betty's internee file described her as a semi-skilled dressmaker and seamstress and suggested stenographer or typist as 'potential occupations'. Little is known of Betty's life prior to her debut in Joshua Logan's Sayonara (1957) , except that she had no prior acting experience and was employed as a clerk at a travel agency in L.A..
The role of Hana-Ogi, the celebrated Matsubayashi dancer who defies tradition by having a secret affair with an American pilot (Marlon Brando), had originally been earmarked for Audrey Hepburn. When Hepburn turned it down, Logan cast the unknown Miiko Taka in the part. Sayonara ultimately grossed $ 10.5 million and won four Oscars, including one for co-star Miyoshi Umeki as Best Supporting Actress. Miiko's performance was lauded by Variety and by Bosley Crowther of the New York Times who described her as "a flute-like beauty - a really lovely, serene and soothing impulse".
In the wake of Sayonara, Miiko was cast as a geisha opposite Glenn Ford in Cry for Happy (1961), a predictable comedy about the assorted romantic affairs of four G.I.'s on leave in Japan during the Korean War. She had further high profile roles in Operation Bottleneck (1961) (as a girl guerrilla), A Global Affair (1964) (with Bob Hope), The Art of Love (1965) (with James Garner) and Walk Don't Run (1966) (with Cary Grant in his last film appearance). On television, she was mostly typecast amid exotic backgrounds in such escapist entertainments as Hawaiian Eye (1959), Adventures in Paradise (1959), I Spy (1965) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). Her penultimate screen appearance was as a Japanese noblewoman in James Clavell's miniseries Shogun (1980).
Miiko Taka was thrice married. Her first husband was the actor Dale Ishimoto with whom she had a son and a daughter.- Actor
- Writer
Began his professional career as a stand up comic in the Seattle area
in the mid '80s, though was acting in Seattle theater since a child.
He got his proverbial 'big break' in 1990 as a stand up on The Tonight
Show with Johnny Carson. An HBO special followed as well as a two year
deal for his own show at Fox television, which did not produce a
series. While at Fox he wrote and starred in several short films for
the TV show
The Sunday Comics (1991)
which led to a starring role in the film
Baby's Day Out (1994). Several
other movies followed including
Little Giants (1994) where he
played overzealous father Mike Hammersmith (aka Spike's Dad), the
presidents secret service agent Mitch in
Mars Attacks! (1996) and muscular
dope Christie in
McHale's Navy (1997).
During the 1995 Super Bowl he was in a popular Miller Lite beer
commercial where he played hard luck quarterback Elmer Bruker, the man
who was on every winning Super Bowl team, but never played. In 1996 he
replaced Lowell the mechanic (played by
Thomas Haden Church on the NBC
series Wings (1990) and in 1999 he
played bartender Tom Vanderhulst on the short lived CBS series
Maggie Winters (1998) with
Faith Ford.
He has also played more serious rolls, including playing a detective in
both Martin Scorsese's
The Departed (2006) and the Cohen
brothers film
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).
He lives in New York and has a production company Sky Blue House
Productions.- Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Samantha is a graduate of the acclaimed Circle In The Square Theatre School in New York City.
She moved to London, UK forming Suspect Package Theatre Co with fellow Canadian actor Trevor White, where their productions received critical success.
An Evening Standard review for 'Problem Child': 'It is impossible to maintain a detached reaction to Suspect Package Company's provocative production, largely due to the impressive Ms. Coughlan's sympathetically psychotic performance'.
She made her West End debut in the Olivier and Tony award winning 'Death of a Salesman' as 'Miss Forsyth' opposite Brian Dennehy and Clare Higgins.
Theatrically she has further worked at The Old Vic under Artistic Director; Kevin Spacey, with Josh Hartnett and Adam Godley on 'Rain Man', directed by Terry Johnson, as well as a cover for both Keira Knightly and Elizabeth Moss on the 'The Children's Hour' directed by Ian Rickson, and on the groundbreaking 5 star production of 'A View From The Bridge', starring Mark Strong, directed by Belgian auteur Ivo Van Hove, amongst numerous other West End, Off- West End and regional productions.
She was nominated for a Best Actress OFFIE for her outstanding work as 'Jane' in Tennessee Williams, "Vieux Carre" at The Kings Head/ Charing Cross Theatres.
Samantha is a successful VoiceOver artist working across the board in commercials, audio-films, radio, animation, gaming, documentaries and was the US voice of Nike Training Club from 2012 until 2018.
She continued her studies with the world renowned teacher, Sandra Seacat in Berlin. - Pamela Roylance was born on 27 March 1952 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for The Social Network (2010), The East (2013) and Cradle Swapping (2017).
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Sharon Baird, best known as Mousketeer "Sharon" on
The Mickey Mouse Club (1955),
was born in Seattle, Washington, on August 16, 1943 (her brother,
Jimmy Baird, also had an acting career,
although it was shorter than Sharon's). She took ballet lessons as a
child, and showed an aptitude for dancing, later taking up tap, jazz
and other forms of dance.
In 1950 she won a "Little Miss Washington" beauty contest. The prize
was a trip to Los Angeles to compete in the national pageant; she took
second place. Her parents found that they preferred the warm, dry
climate of L.A. to the cold, rainy one of Seattle and moved there. It
was in L.A. that Sharon got a new dance teacher, renowned tap dancer
Louis Da Pron. His new pupil showed such
promise that he recommended she audition for an upcoming part in a skit
involving children on
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950).
She didn't get the part, but the show's host,
Eddie Cantor, put her under personal
contract, and whenever he hosted the show, he put her in it. She
eventually tried out for, and got, a part in the film
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952).
Cantor had a heart attack in 1952, and without him Sharon's career
slowed considerably. She managed to get parts in a few TV series
episodes but not much more than that.
The 11-year-old Sharon was at a Capitol Records recording session when
she was spotted by Jimmie Dodd, who was to
be one of the co-hosts of the upcoming Disney show "The Mickey Mouse
Club". He urged her to audition for it. She did, and got the part. She
had more singing and dancing experience than most of her fellow cast
members, and eventually wound up being featured in almost every show in
the first year. In addition to her work on the show, Sharon also
performed in live shows at Disneyland, and went on the road with some
of her fellow cast members.
By the show's third year, however, things began to change. Sharon found
herself being used less and less, and often just in the background
instead of being a featured singer or dancer. When the show ended in
1958, Sharon continued to perform at Disneyland and at other functions
with some of her former cast members, such as an Australian tour in
1959. She later performed with song-and-dance man
Donald O'Connor in a Las Vegas
engagement. The variety show genre was on its last legs, however, and
Sharon made ends meet by teaching dancing and enrolling in math and
secretarial courses at Los Angeles Valley College, which she attended
from 1960-1962. In 1963 she married singer Dalton Lee Thomas, but they
separated in 1966, finally divorcing in 1972.
Sharon was working as a secretary in 1969 when she got a call from
producer Sid Krofft, who offered her a part
in his new show,
H.R. Pufnstuf (1969). She took
it, and was later hired by Krofft and his brother
Marty Krofft for all of their subsequent
series. In 1975 Sharon appeared at the 20th Anniversary Celebration for
"The Mickey Mouse Club" at Disneyland. She appeared as "Frodo" in the
animated/live action
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
by Ralph Bakshi and on "The Mickey Mouse
Club's" 20th Anniversary Show in 1980. In 1986, however, she appeared
in a film unlike anything she had appeared in before: she played--under
the pseudonym "S.L. Baird"--a teenage boy whose physical deformity and
behavior led him to be called "Ratboy" in the film of the same name,
Ratboy (1986). Unfortunately the film was
a commercial and critical failure and Sharon returned to performing in
children's shows, and appeared in a direct-to-video production called
The Mother Goose Video Treasury (1987).
She has since appeared in several Mousketeer reunions and at
Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Event in 2005. She has remained close
friends with former Mousketeer
Annette Funicello.