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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. At age eight, she began dancing lessons. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was senior class head cheerleader and president. Her graduation was in 1980 and entered the college process at Cal State Northridge to major in radio and television. 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 recruited her to choreograph the 1984 "Torture" which was their first of a series of films and videos she would choreograph. After the release of her debut CD "Forever Your Girl" started singing, she turned to singing and became a popular performer and dancer. Her time as an American Idol judge (2002) has helped her become a more popular performer/dancer. Her father (Harry Abdul) is from a Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her mother is Jewish and was born in Canada...

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is known for her portrayals in characters in period and contemporary screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was born on April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Eileen (Mundy) and John McDonnell, a computer consultant Both from Irish origin. Raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Fredonia. Later, she attended the drama school and was accepted to the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. Her first film role came in Dances with Wolves (1990) by Kevin Costner. She played the character "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian-raised white woman. McDonnell received her first Academy Award nomination for the character. McDonnell has appeared in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) with such veteran performers as Robert Redford as well as Sidney Poitier. She also played in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996), which ...

Paula Faris is an American journalist from the US. She was previously the TV reporter for ABC News. Her stints as co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend (2014-2018) and co-host on The View (2015-2018) are famous. She was also co-anchor on 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. Because of the lack of opportunities available on television, she was offered an opening as an agent for radio sales. She was hired as a WRGT/WKEF production assistant and then was promoted to anchor and reporter. She was the weekend anchor at WCPO TV in Cincinnati as well as the anchor for weekdays for WCPO TV in Cincinnati from 2002 until 2005. The contract was canceled and she became a reporter as well as an anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV, Chicago, from November 2005 to December 2011. In December 2011 it was revealed that she was employed by ABC's news di...

Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She started her career as a TV and film producer, including "The New Card Sharks", (1978) and "Card Sharks" (1986). She produced projects like Double Dare (1976), and has appeared on many TV shows, including E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Perhaps her most famous TV role was as "Christine Sullivan" on Night Court (1984). She was featured in 156 episodes of this comedy from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She is a poet and noted nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14, 1918-April 7, 2015). She had two daughters with her second husband Michael A. Ross: Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1987) and Daisy Ross (born March 30 90, 1990). Her birthplace was Palo alto, California and grew up near Walnut Creek, California. As cheerleader, she attended Las Lomas High school located in Walnut Creek. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon awarded her a Bachelor of Arts d...

Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke, and Doug Chalke are her parents. She is the middle child, having an older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's first acting role was in City Boy (1992), an adaptation of a film for television. After her debut film was a success, Sarah auditioned for the role of "Becky" from Roseanne (1988). The show was seeking someone to fill in for Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah completed her high school graduation in the year 1995, when she was filming the season 1994-1995 of Roseanne (1988). In 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film, Ernest Goes to School (1994) as did Jim Varney. In 1996, Sarah appeared in two movies: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996) as an actress named Krista Wilson. In 1998, a year following the time that Roseanne (1988) ended, Sarah was asked to play a character in a TV show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998)...

Lauren Ash is a recent alumna of the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also a graduate of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She has been a two-time Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Female Improviser. She has also won for the award for the most outstanding Comedic Show in 2008 and Best Sketch Troupe in 2006. She has appeared in a variety of roles in "Scare Tactics" as well as "Almost Heroes," an Canadian TV show. She played a recurring character in "The Ron James Show" as well as guest appearances in "Lost Girl,"" "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." She also has been featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Academy Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voices the character of Sam in the animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." In 2019-2020, her net worth has grown significant. What does ...

Paula Patton was born in Los Angeles, California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African American, while her mother is caucasian and has German, English and Dutch heritage. As a child in the area, her family lived next to the 20th Century Fox lot. She was a huge film enthusiast since her early years. Her mother, who was a teacher and her father as a lawyer were both avid film buffs. Paula claimed that she tried to get away as an infant through "pretending" to pretend to be someone else than. So it's not a surprise that she took part in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School performances. Her most loved role was one of Abigail in "The Crucible". She pursued her studies at the University of Southern California, where she completed a summer course in film. It was during this time that she was awarded a 3-month assignment to make documentaries for PBS. Then, she was hired as a production assistant for documentaries on TV and Howie Mandel's talk ...

Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent the majority of her childhood living in Chicago. Amy lived in Glen Ellyn Illinois, right up to the time she graduated from junior college. The family also lived in Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at the American School. Amy is the mother of two sisters: Betsy and Lori, as well as a brother Joe. Amy has traveled all over Europe with her family and independently. Both of them were teachers and were able to travel and camp together every summer due to this. In reality, they've camped in every state except Alaska. Amy has also traveled to Rwanda after the war in 1994 to help in relief efforts. Amy was a skilled actor in school plays , and she won writing contests. In high school she was a promising athlete who placed in the first ever 3200 meter relay in Illinois girls track. Following an injury, she was able to return to theater , and played a variety roles, including Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of Ju...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser. When she was a toddler she was an obsessed performer who would recreate commercials on TV for the entertainment of her parents. However, she decided to dedicate her time to dancing. After studying ballet for nine years at the Spanish National Conservatory, she continued her education under a number of famous dancers. Her true calling was discovered at the age of 15 when she defeated more than 300 contestants in an audition for a talent agency. She was then offered roles in Spanish television and music videos. The contract resulted in a variety of roles, opening the way to a future in the world of big screens. Cruz made her debut in a film with The Greek Labyrinth (1993). (The Greek Labyrinth). Following that she appeared briefly in Framed (1992) directed by Timothy Dalton. The Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992) was her third film. In the film, she played one of the four sisters seeki...

Milena Govich is an actor, director musician, actor, and actor who has directed a number of episodes of TV which include The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012), among others. Milena served as the Co-EP/Producing Director for Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018) and is currently attached to two pilots. Milena was chosen as one of the eight directors in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. Her short film and TV show proof-of-concept titled Unspeakable featuring Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober The film had its World Premiere at SXSW and was awarded Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017) has been shown all over the country, winning 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. Milena has appeared in ove...

Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated stage, film and TV actor. She was born in Dallas and raised in New Jersey. The film featured her in the film's breakout character, CoyoteUgly in 2000. She has been featured in a number of films since that time, including Christopher's "The Prestige" which starred Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale as well as "Because I Said So", with Diane Keaton, and "First Snow" with Guy Pearce. "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Imagine Me and You" films with Steve Martin, "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen" films, "10th & Wolf" crime drama featuring a cast which also included Dennis Hopper and James Marsden. In Rian Johnson's sci-fi action film "Looper," she starred alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. In the television world, Perabo starred as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of the USA Network's spy drama ...

Ayelet Zurer is one of Israel's most highly regarded actresses. She was born in Tel Aviv and was first recognized by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first English-speaking role as Eric Bana’s wife in Munich (2005). Since arriving in the United States, Zurer has starred in Studio films like Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt as well as Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Pieces opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected alongside Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons is opposite Tom Hanks. Darling companion, a Lawrence Kasdan cast and starring Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline as well as Warner Bros. Man Of Steel, opposite Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. She filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert alongside Ewan McGregor, as well as waiting for the release of her film The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya opposite Clive Owen. Recently, she received the Gold Nymph Award...

Pollyanna McIntosh was a child in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her native Scotland in Scotland, where she was born. It was here that she first began to perform on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. After 16 she relocated to London where she quickly became involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. (Her first pay-per-view on The Acid House was as a stoner in the film Irvine Welsh (1998)). She has also been involved in theatre, as an actor and a director. The move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought an increase in theatre productions, including a production of "The Woolgatherer" where she was the director Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) as well as David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to high praise. Then she landed her first US film role, playing the manipulative woman who is a new Christian, "Stacy", in Headspace (2005). The role was later recast as "Thumper Wint", a wild, born-again Christian, in Sex and D...

Paget Valerie is an American actor, singer, and voice actor. She first became famous for her recurring role as Kathy in the fourth season of NBC sitcom Friends. Her first big break came when she portrayed Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds where she was on the show regularly from 2006 until 2012. She has since returned for guest appearances before returning regularly in 2016. Other roles she has appeared in includes Mr. Mumbles, Elise and Mr. Mumbles in Dan Vs. Frankie Dart, Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at Lawyer, Sara Kingsley, on Fox sitcom Grandfathered and voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della on the show DuckTales 2017. The first animated appearance by the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10 1989. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew) was an official in the government, while her father, Galen Brewster, worked as an administrator in a school. Brewster was raised in Massachusetts. She was able to ...

Pom Klementieff was born May 3rd, 1986. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris. Her role includes Loup (2009) and Sleepless Night (2011). She plays the character of Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (1999). Pom Klementieff was the child of two parents: a Korean mother, as well as her father was French-Russian. Her father was consul in Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff was her grandfather. Because it sounded similar to the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger", her parents gave their daughter the name Pom. Klementieff was an American citizen for a year. Her family had traveled extensively due to her father's job. After moving to France she resided in Japan. Her father, who passed away from cancer at age 5, was her mother. Also, she was suffering from schizophrenia and was unable to care for her children. Klementieff was raised with h...