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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. At eight, she started learning dance. She was a student at Van Nuys High School, in which she was a senior class head cheerleader and president. After graduation in 1980, she entered 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 film "Torture" which was the first in a long line of movies and videos she choreographed. The first album she released was "Forever Your Girl" Her singing career took off. However, the single "Straight Up" was a big hit and she's been a wildly successful performer/singer ever after. It was made easier by her appearance on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father, Harry Abdul, is Sephardic Jewish from Syria. Her mother is also Jewish...

Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is well famous for her performance on screen in historical and modern roles. She also has a long list of roles on stage as well as screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy), an Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was raised in Ithaca and attended Fredonia State University of New York. She then attended theatre school, after which she was accepted into the Long Wharf Theatre Company (East Coast). A decade later, she landed her breakthrough film role in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) in which she played "Stands with a Fist" who is a white woman born to the Sioux Indians. The role was so well-loved that she received her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell has starred in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) in the role of veteran performers as Robert Redford as well as Sidney Poitier. She also was a part of ...

Paula Faris is an American journalist who formerly worked as the TV correspondent for ABC News. She is best known for her role as co-host of Good Morning America Weekend, from 2014 to 2018, and host of The View, 2015-2018. The show was co-hosted by her prior co-anchors America This Morning and World News Now. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. Due to limited TV opportunities she was employed in radio sales. Then she was able to work for one year as a production assistant for WKEF/WRGT. Later, she would occasionally report and anchor. She was the weekend and weekday sports anchors at WCPO TV, Cincinnati, from 2002 until 2005. The contract was ended and she became a reporter and anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV, Chicago, from November 2005 until December 2011. She was recruited by ABC News the news division in December 2011. The 2nd of January, 2012, she debuted on the network...

Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and began her career in film and TV shows, such as Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and went on to even make projects like Double Dare (1976) and has made appearances on such television projects like 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001), and Dyna Girl (2001). Her most famous TV part was "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). She was in more than 156 episodes of the comedy between 1984 and 1992. Daughter of Marylee (Armstrong) Post, poet, and famous nuclear physicist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 - April 7 2015). With her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26 June 26, 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). She was born in Palo Alto, California, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. As an athletics coach, she attended Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon awarded...

Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. She is the middle child having one older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career with City Boy (1992), an original television film. In 1993, following her debut film, she was a candidate for the role of "Becky" on the TV show Roseanne (1988). After Alicia Goranson left the show to go to college, the show was searching for a replacement. Sarah completed her high school degree in 1995, while filming the 1994-95 Roseanne (1988) season. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). In 1996, Sarah played in two films: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996), where she was an actress who was named Krista Wilson. In 1998, one year after Roseanne (1988) was over, Sarah was asked to be a part of a show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998). It was based on a TV movi...

Lauren Ash is a recent graduate of the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is one half of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's been an Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for the Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she was awarded the Best Comedic Play award , and in 2006, she won the Best Sketch Troupe award. She's appeared in various roles on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" and "Almost Heroes," as well. She played a frequent role in "The Ron James Show" and made guest appearances in "Lost Girl,"" "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." She also has been featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Oscar Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also plays the role of Sam in the animated Canadian show "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has grown considerably between 2019 and the year 2020...

Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden), Patton, and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American and her mother is caucasian and has German, English and Dutch roots. While growing up in the area, her family lived across from the 20th Century Fox lot. She was an avid movie enthusiast from childhood. Her mother, who was a teacher and her father, a lawyer, were both avid film fans. Paula said that she attempted to escape as an innocent child through "pretending" to appear to be someone different from herself. So it's not a surprise that she took part in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School performances. Her favorite role was the one of Abigail in "The Crucible". But, she decided to learn film at the University of Southern California in the summer program and won a 3-month assignment making documentary films for PBS. This led to her being employed as a production assistant in TV documentaries, and also for Howie Mandel's talk show. After a few months, sh...

Born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Amy Carlson spent most of her childhood in the Chicago area. But at the time Amy was in junior high, she and her family also resided in the Middle East where her parents, Bob and Barb, taught at the American School. Amy has three siblings: sisters Betsy and Lori and brother Joe. Amy has traveled across Europe together with her family and alone. Since her parents worked as teachers and teachers, they could travel together every summer, and camping across the United States. In reality, they've been camping in every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy went to Rwanda to aid in relief efforts after the war in 1994. Early on, Amy showed artistic talent acting in school productions as well as winning writing contests. High school was where she excelled as an athlete and was the first to participate in the ever 3200 meter relay for girls in the Illinois track. Following an injury, she returned to college and was a part of the stage, starting with Lanford ...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and Encarna Sanchez, hairdresser. She was a compulsive performer when she was a kid and even reenacted commercials on TV to amuse the family. However, she chose to concentrate on dance. After nine years of ballet instruction at Spain's National Conservatory she was able to continue her studies under the supervision of a variety of prominent dancers. She discovered her true passion at age 15 when she smashed more than 300 other girls in an audition with an agency for talent. The contract she received landed her roles on Spanish TV shows , as well as music videos. It opened the way to a promising career in the world of film. Cruz made her debut film in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). Then she briefly appeared in Framed (1992) in a Timothy Dalton thriller. The Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992) was her third film. In it, she played one of four sisters that were seeking the affection of a handsome...

Milena Govich, a writer and actor, has directed many episodes of TV including Chicago Med (2015), The Equalizer (2021), FBI The Most Wanted(2020), Chicago Fire (2012), and others. She also served as Co-EP/Producing Director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018) and is currently directing two pilots currently in development. Milena was among eight filmmakers selected for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, in addition to the only Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. Unspeakable is her short film and television series proof of concept, was shown at SXSW. It also won Best Episodic Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. The film she made in the short form Temporary (2017 directed by Milena Vandervoort) has been screened across the United States. It won the award for Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival and Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest. The Director's Choice Award was also ...

Piper Perabo has been nominated for an Golden Globe as a stage or TV actor. She was born in Dallas and grew up in New Jersey. The film featured her in Coyote Ugly's breakout role in 2000. Since then she has been featured in films such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow" which starred Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films starring Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and You" featuring Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th and Wolf" with an ensemble cast which included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. She appeared alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action flick "Looper.". Perabo was Annie Walker's TV part in five seasons on the USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs." Following that she co-starred in ABC's legal dr...

Ayelet Zurer is among Israel's most highly regarded actresses. She was born in Tel Aviv and was first noticed by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first role in English as Eric Bana's wife in Munich (2005). Zurer is an American actress who has appeared in Studio films, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point, with Dennis Quaid (with William Hurt), Samuel Goldwyn’s Fugitive pieces alongside Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected alongside Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons opposite Tom Hanks. Darling Companion is an ensemble movie by Lawrence Kasdan that includes Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Warner Bros. Man Of Steel with Russell Crow. She was a part of Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert alongside Ewan McGregor in addition to waiting for the release date of the movie The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya. She also appeared in Clive Owen. Recently, she was awarded the Gold Nymph Award as Outstan...

Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia However, she later returned to Scotland when she began her career on the stage at The Edinburgh Festival. She moved to London at the age of 16 and soon was involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. The first time she was paid was as a stoner on Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998). She also worked as an actress and director in theatre. Moving to Los Angeles in 2004 led to more stage work. She directed Anne Dudek (a regular star on Mad Men/Big Love (2006)) as along with David Dayan Fisher (a regular star on 24 (2001/NCIS 2003)) to rave reviews. She then landed her first US movie role as the manipulative and a born-again Christian, "Stacy", in Headspace (2005). It was as the crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder) written created by Heathers (1988) author Daniel Waters, that the public began to notice of her talent, citing the unique combination of strong sexuality...

Paget Valerie Broughster is an American actor vocalist, singer, and actress. Her role as Kathy as a character that recurred on Friends the fourth season was her first big break. Her first fame was due to her character Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime drama Criminal Minds. She appeared frequently on the show from 2006 until 2012. The show has been back regularly since then , making guest appearances. She also played Mr. Mumbles and Elise on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in Community's final season Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at law, Sara Kingsley in Fox's Grandfathered and Donald Duck's twin sister Della on DuckTales 2017, which was the first appearance on animated television for the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10 in 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew) worked in government. Her father, Galen Brewster worked as school administrator. Brewster was raised in Massachusetts. She made the move to New York City fo...

Pom Klementieff was born on May 3, 1986. She received her training at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has appeared in films like Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She plays the Mantis character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was raised in Quebec City to a Korean father and a French-Russian mom. He was employed as consul with the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandfather. Pom was her name since it sounds like the Korean words "spring" and "tiger" in Korean. Klementieff lived in Canada for a year prior to her family went on a long trip because of her father's job. Prior to moving to France, they resided in Japan and also on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff lost her father to cancer at the age of five. Her mother was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Klementieff was raised in Fr...