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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. She started taking dance classes at the age of eight. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was the class head cheerleader and president. Her high school graduation was in the year 1980. Following graduation she entered college at Cal State Northridge. There she studied 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. She was recruited by The Jacksons to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, which was the first of a series of films and videos she choreographed. After her debut CD "Forever Your Girl", she began singing and was soon a well-known singer/dancer. Her time as an American Idol judge (2002) has made her a popular performer/dancer. Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her mother, who is also Jewish, was born and raise

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is known for her portrayals in characters from both contemporary and period screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) she was the daughter of a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was born in Ithaca and then graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. She later attended the drama program and was admitted to the prestigious Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. At the age of 22, she was when she was offered her breakthrough film role in Dances with Wolves (1990), where she was "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian woman that is white. McDonnell received her first Academy Award nomination for the part. McDonnell has starred in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) opposite such experienced actors as Robert Redford as well as Sidney Poitier. She also was a part of Roland Emmerich's I

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist from the United States. She was previously a television correspondent for ABC News. She is most famous for her stint as cohost of Good Morning America Weekend, 2014-2018, as well as host of The View, 2015-2018. Before this, she co-anchored World News Now as well as America This Morning. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. Due to the lack of opportunities for TV, she took the position of a radio sales representative. Then she was able to work for one year as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT and later occasionally anchor and report. She was the weekend and weekday sports anchors at WCPO TV, Cincinnati, from 2002 to 2005. She became a reporter for sports at the NBC's Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV from November 2005 to December 2011, after her contract expired. In December 2011, she was hired by ABC News which is the news division of ABC. O

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and started her career on films and TV shows, including Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and later on create projects such as Double Dare (1976) and she has appeared on TV shows such as 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (2001). 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. She was the daughter of Marylee (Armstrong) Post, a poet, and noted nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 - April 7 15th, 2015). She had two daughters with her second husband Michael A. Ross: Katie Ross (born June 26 1987) and Daisy Ross (born March 30 in 1990). Was born in Palo Alto, California, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. As a cheerleader, she attended Las Lomas High school in Walnut Creek. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon a

Sarah Chalke

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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. She has one older sister, Natasha Chalke and one younger sister, Piper Chalke. Sarah's acting debut was in City Boy (1992), the TV-produced film. Following her debut film, Sarah auditioned for the role as Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. The show was looking for someone to replace Alicia Goranson, who left the show to go to studies at college. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995 and began filming the 1994-1995 Roseanne (1988) season. 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 these films, she played the role of Krista Wilson as an athlete. Sarah was asked to play a character in a TV series named Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998) in the year after Roseanne (1988). Based on the show Nothing Too Good For a Cowboy (1998) on which

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent participant in the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also an alumna from the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also one half of the comedy duo "Cory!". She has been a Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she took home the Best Comedic Play award and , in 2006, the Best Sketch Troupe award. The actress has been in several roles on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" and "Almost Heroes," as well. She was a regular in "The Ron James Show" and was a guest on "Lost Girl," "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Other television and film credits include "Video on Trial,"" "Hotbox" as well as the Oscar Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also appears as Sam in animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has grown considerably between 2019 and the year 2020. So, how

Paula Patton

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Paula Patton was born in Los Angeles, California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American . her mother who is caucasian is of German, English, and Dutch roots. When she was growing up in the area, her family lived close to the 20th Century Fox lot. She was an avid movie enthusiast from childhood. Her mother, a schoolteacher as well as her father, a lawyer, were both avid film fans. Paula says that as young, she would try to escape by "pretending to pretend to be someone else" therefore it wasn't the case that she appeared in plays for high school at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her most loved role was one of Abigail in "The Crucible". After graduation from the University Southern California's summer program she studied film and was offered a three-month project to make documentaries for PBS. The result was that she was hired as a production assistant for documentaries on TV and also on Howie Mandel's talk show. After a

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was born in Glen Ellyn in Illinois and was raised in Chicago. Amy resided in Glen Ellyn Illinois, right up to the time she entered junior college. Her family also resided in the Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at the American School. Amy is the youngest of three siblings, sisters Betsy and Lori and Joe, the brother. Joe. Amy has backpacked all over Europe with her family , and on her own. Because her parents worked as teachers and teachers, they could enjoy every summer with each other, traveling and camping throughout the United States. They have spent time camping in every state other than Alaska. Amy was in Rwanda in 1994 after the war to assist with relief efforts. Amy was a talented actor in school productions and was a winner of writing contests. In high school she was an accomplished athlete who placed in the first ever 3200 meter relay in the Illinois girls track. After college, she suffered an injury, she returned to the stage with a variety o

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and Encarna Sanchez who was a hairdresser. As a toddler she was already a compulsive performer who would recreate commercials on television for her family's entertainment, but she eventually decided to concentrate on dancing. After pursuing classical ballet for nine years at the Spanish National Conservatory, she continued her education under a variety of prominent dancers. She realized what she wanted to do at the age of 15 when she beat more than 300 girls in an audition for an agency for talent. The contract she signed secured her a variety of roles in Spanish television shows as well as music videos, which in turn paved the way for a successful career on the big screen. Cruz made her film debut in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). Then she briefly made an appearance in Framed (1992) in a Timothy Dalton thriller. The Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992) was her third film. In the film, she play

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is an actress also a director, actor, and musician. She has directed a number of episodes of TV that include Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). In addition, she was the Co-EP/Producing Director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently a part of two pilots currently in development. Milena was one of the eight filmmakers chosen for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, as well as the exclusive Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. Her short film and TV series proof-of-concept , Unspeakable, starring Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober, featured its World premiere at SXSW and was awarded Best Episodic at Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017) is screened across the United States and won Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest as well as the Director's Choice Award at Sedona International Fi

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo has been nominated for a Golden Globe as a stage as well as a TV and film actor. She was born in Dallas and was raised in New Jersey. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. She has been in a variety of films since then, including Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" featuring Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale as well as "Because I Said So" which starred Diane Keaton, and "First Snow" with Guy Pearce. "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Imagine Me & You" films starring Steve Martin, "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen" films, "10th & Wolf" crime drama with a cast that also comprised Dennis Hopper and James Marsden. She was a star alongside Bruce Willis (with Joseph Gordon Levitt), Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian John's sci-fi action movie "Looper". Perabo was Annie Walker's TV role in five seasons of USA Network's spy show &quo

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zurer is among Israel's most highly regarded actresses. Her birthplace is in Tel Aviv and was first discovered by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first role in English as Eric Bana’s wife in Munich (2005). Zurer has appeared in several Studio films since arriving in America, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point opposite William Hurt and Dennis Quaid, Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts, which starred Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected opposite Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons, opposite Tom Hanks, Darling Companion, a Lawrence Kasdan ensemble casting that features Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel in the role of Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor was her filming partner in Rodrigo Garcia's Last Days in Desert. Also, she waited for The Last Knights to be released by Kazuaki Kriya, the Japanese director. She recently won the Gold Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress in the Drama Series at

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was raised in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her birthplace of Scotland in Scotland, where she was born. It was here that she first started performing on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 16, she left for London and soon became involved in indie filmmaking (her first pay-per-view was as stoner in Irvine Wales's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre in both roles as an actress and director. The move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought new theatre opportunities such as a production called "The Woolgatherer" that she was 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 amazing reviews. In Headspace (2005) she made her debut US movie part as "Stacy" who was a manipulative person who was a newly-baptized Christian. It was in the role of crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy, Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder) directed produ

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie is an American actor, singer, as well as voice actor. Most famously, she was known for her character as Kathy in the fourth season's NBC sitcom Friends but she was also an actor and singer. Her first big break came when she portrayed the Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds, on which she was a regular on the show between 2006 and 2012 and has since returned to for guest appearances , before returning regularly in the year 2016. Her other roles include voicing Elise and Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart on the last season of Community as well as the voice of Birdgirl in the Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered and playing Donald Duck's twin sister Della in the 2017 season of DuckTales which was the first appearance in animation of the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10 the year 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew) was employed by the governme

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff was born May 3, 1986. She attended the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been 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 mother. He was employed as consul with the French government. Eugene Klementieff was her grandfather. Pom was her name because it is a symphony of the Korean words "spring" and 'tiger" in Korean. Klementieff was a Canadian citizen for one year. Her family was able to travel extensively due to her father's job. Prior to making the move to France the family resided in Japan and on the Ivory Coast. The father of Klementieff died from cancer when she was five, and her mother had schizophrenia and could not care for children which is why Klementieff