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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. At eight, she started taking dance classes. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the top cheerleader and the senior class president. After graduation in 1980, she started college at Cal State-Northridge, with a major in radio and TV. After joining the L.A. Lakers cheerleaders, she became head cheerleader/choreographer after only a few months, eventually dropping out of college to dance and choreograph full-time. The Jacksons hired her to choreograph their 1984 video "Torture" it was the first in a lengthy series of films and videos she choreographed. She started singing through her first album, "Forever Your Girl" that had a lackluster success until her single "Straight Up" exploded onto the charts in December of 1988. she's been a household artist and singer ever since. This was made even more popular by her stint as judge on the cult show American Idol (2002). Her father, Harry Abdul, i

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is well-known for her portrayals of characters in period and contemporary screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) is an Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was born in Ithaca and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. After that, she went to drama school , and was accepted into the prestigious Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. She was only 22 when she scored her first movie role in Dances with Wolves (1990), where she was "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian woman that is white. In exchange for the role, she was awarded her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell's film credits also include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999) as well as opposite veteran actors like Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996) (starring

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist who worked previously as a television correspondent for ABC News. She is well-known for her tenure as co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend from 2014 to 2018 and hosting The View from 2015 to in 2018. Prior to that, she was co-anchoring World News Now and America This Morning. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. The position she held was in sales for radio, because television was not a viable option. After a year of work as a production assistant for WKEF/WRGT, she eventually was capable of reporting and anchoring on occasion. From 2002 until 2005 she was the weekend sports anchor as well as the sports anchor for weekdays at the station WCPO in Cincinnati. The contract was canceled and she was a reporter and anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV, Chicago, from November 2005 through December 2011. In December 2011, it was announced that she

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and began her career with films and TV shows, including Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and later on produce such projects as Double Dare (1976) and was a guest on TV shows like 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Perhaps her greatest TV role was as "Christine Sullivan" on Night Court (1984). From 1984 to 1992 she was a part of 156 shows. Daughter of Marylee (Armstrong) Post, poet, and famous nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 - April 7 in 2015). With her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). She was born in Palo alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek in California. The school she attended was Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California; she was an athlete. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon awarded her a Bachelor of Art

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was born on 27 August 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Angie Chalke, and Doug Chalke are her parents. Sarah is the middle child. She has one older sister, Natasha Chalke and one younger sister, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career with City Boy (1992), a made for television movie. After her first film she auditioned for the role as Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. The show was in search of an alternative to Alicia Goranson, who left the show in order to attend studies at college. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995 and was involved in the making of Roseanne (1988) from 1994 to 1995. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). She also appeared in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand against Fear(1996). In both films she played the part of Krista Wilson and was an athlete. Sarah was asked to be a part in a show from 1998 called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. The show was released one year after Roseanne (1988). The show was based

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent graduate of the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also an alumna from the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also part of the comedy duo "Cory!". She's been an Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for the title of Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she took home the award for the Best Comedic play award and in 2006, she was awarded the Best Sketch Troupe award. She has appeared in a variety of roles on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes", as well. She was a regular on "The Ron James Show" and was a guest in "Call Me Fitz,"""Cracked,"""Bomb Girls" and "Lost Girl." She has also been featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Academy Award-nominated movie "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voiced the character of Sam in the animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has risen dramatically between 2019 and 2020. What's t

Paula Patton

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Paula Patton was the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American, while her mother is caucasian and is of German, English and Dutch roots. Her family lived right next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she grew up, and she was a major movie buff from the beginning of her life. Her mother, a teacher, and her dad as a lawyer were both avid film buffs. Paula states that as an adult she would escape from the world by "pretending to play a different character" which is why it came as surprising that she was a part-time actress in high school plays at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her most loved role was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". After finishing the University of Southern California's summer program, she studied film and was offered a three-month assignment to create documentaries for PBS. The result was that she could work as a production assistant in documentaries on TV and also on Howie Mandel's talk show. In t

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent most of her childhood living in Chicago. Amy was a part of her family in Chicago while she was in junior high school. Parents, Bob, and Barb taught at the American School in the Middle East. Amy has two sisters, Betsy and Lori, and a younger brother, Joe. Amy has traveled extensively across Europe with her entire family and on her own. They both taught and were able to travel and camp together every summer because of this. In actuality, they've been camping in every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy was in Rwanda in 1994 after the war to help with aid efforts to help the victims. Amy was a gifted artist from the beginning when she was acting in school productions, and taking part in writing competitions. She was a talented athlete in high school and participated in the very first 3200-meter relay at the Illinois girls track. After a college accident, she returned to the theater and performed in a variety on stage, beg

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez is the daughter of Eduardo Cruz, a Madrid hairdresser, and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser from Madrid. She was an obsessive performer when she was a kid and even reenacted commercials on TV to amuse the family. But she chose to focus her attention on dancing. She continued to train with a number of well-respected dancers, after having spent 9 years studying classical ballet at Spain's National Conservatory. Her true calling was discovered at age 15, when she beat more than 300 girls at an audition for an agency for talents. The agency offered her roles on Spanish music videos and TV. This led to many more roles, and opened the doors to a successful career on the world of big screens. Cruz was first seen in a movie in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) Then she appeared briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). The Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992) was her third film. In it, she played one of the four sisters who were fighting for the

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is a director, actor, and musician who has helmed many episodes of TV, including The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012) and Chicago Fire (2012), among others. She also was the Co-EP/Producing Director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018) and is attached to direct two pilots in development. Milena was chosen as one of eight directors to take part in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. Unspeakable was her television series as well as a short film. The show starred Jeff Kober and Laura Vandervoort the film was awarded the Best Episodic Award at the Seattle International Film Festival as well as the Best Pilot award at the SoHo International Film Festival. The short film she made, Temporary (2017) has been shown across the nation and was awarded Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest as well as the Director's Choice Award at Sedona International Film Festival.

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globes in the category of stage, TV, and film actress. Born in Dallas, Texas, and living in New Jersey, she graduated in the summa cum Laude class at Ohio University. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. The film starred her in "The Prestige" directed by Christopher Nolan with Hugh Jackman & Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" and "Because I Said So" together with "Because I Said So", with Diane Keaton and Guy Pearce. In addition to "Cheaper by the Dozen", Lena Heady, Matthew Goode, and the crime drama "10th & Wolf", she also starred with James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci fi action film "Looper," she starred with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Perabo played Annie Walker on USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs" for five seasons. After that, Perabo starred as Annie Walker on USA Network's spy drama "Covert

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zuer is an Israeli actress who has received praise for her performances. She was born in Tel Aviv and was first discovered by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first English-speaking role , Eric Bana's wife in Munich (2005). Zurer is an American actress who has been featured in Studio films, such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid (with William Hurt), Samuel Goldwyn’s Fugitive pieces with Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons opposite Tom Hanks. Darling Companion is an ensemble movie by Lawrence Kasdan which includes Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Warner Bros. Man Of Steel together with Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor was her co-filming partner in Rodrigo Garcia's The Last Days in Desert. Also, she waited for The Last Knights to be released by Kazuaki Kriya Kazuaki Kriya, Kazuaki Kriya, the Japanese director. Recently, she was awarded the Gold Nymph Award

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia She was born in Colombia and Portugal, but she later moved to Scotland when she began her career on the stage at The Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 16, she left for London and soon found herself involved in independent filmmaking (her first paid gig was as stoner in Irvine Wales's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre acting, both as an actor and director. In 2004, she relocated to Los Angeles to direct "The Woolgatherer" the play which Anne Dudek (a regular guest on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) was the director. It was well-received by critics. In Headspace (2005), she made her debut US film role as "Stacy" who was a manipulative and a born-again Christian. It was in the role of wild "Thumper Wint" in the comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder) written by Heathers (1988) writer Daniel Waters, that the public began to notice of her talent, noting a unique blend of powerful sexua

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie Brewster is an American voice actress, actress, and singer. She was first recognized for her regular role as Kathy in the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. She was first recognized for her character Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime show Criminal Minds. The actress was seen often on the show from 2006 to 2012. She has returned regularly since then , making guest appearances. Her other roles include the voice of Elise and Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in the final season of Community, the voice of Birdgirl in the Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered and also voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della in the 2017 season of DuckTales, marking the first animated appearance for the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10 the year 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew) worked in government. Her father Galen Brewster worked as school administrator. Brewster was born in

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff is a French actress was born on 3 May 1986. She attended the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been in movies such as Loup 2009, Sleepless Night 2011 and Hacker's Game 2015. She is the Mantis character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was the child of an Korean mother and a father who was French-Russian. Her father was a consul in Quebec City, Canada. Her grandfather was painter Eugene Klementieff. Since it sounds like the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger" Her parents gave their daughter the name Pom. Klementieff was a Canadian citizen for a year. Her family traveled extensively due to her father's job. Before making the move to France, they resided in Japan and also on the Ivory Coast. Her father was diagnosed with cancer when she was five and her mother was suffering from schizophrenia and was unable to care for c