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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. She began dancing when she was eight. She went to Van Nuys High School, where she was the class president and head cheerleader. She graduated in 1980, and started college 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 their 1984 film "Torture" which was their first of a series of videos and movies she choreographed. Her first album "Forever Your Girl" and her first solo album, her singing career began to take off. The single "Straight Up" was a big hit and she's been a successful singer/dancer ever after. This was made possible by her time on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father (Harry Abdul) is Sephardic Jewish and hails from Syria. Her mother is Jewish and was bo...

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is well-known for her portrayals of characters from both contemporary and period screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the child of Eileen (Mundy) the American computer consultant from Ireland, and John McDonnell. She was born in Ithaca and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. After that, she went to drama school and was admitted to the famous Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. At the age of 22, she was when she was offered her breakthrough movie role in Dances with Wolves (1990) in which she played "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian woman who was white. For the role, she earned her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell has starred in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) alongside such veteran actors like Robert Redford as well as Sidney Poitier. She also was a part of Roland Emmerich's Independence...

Paula Faris is an American journalist who was previously the TV correspondent for ABC News. She is famous for her time as co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend from 2014 to 2018 as well as in her role as co-host on The View from 2015 to 2018. Before that she was co-anchor of America This Morning (World News Now) as well as America This Morning (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 limited opportunities on television, she landed the position of a sales representative for radio. She was recruited as a WKEF/WRGT production assistant. She later was promoted to anchor and reporter. She was the anchor for weekends for WCPO TV in Cincinnati and the anchor for weekdays at WCPO TV in Cincinnati from 2002 to 2005. She was a sports reporter for the NBC's Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV between November 2005 and December 2011, after her contract had expi...

Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She started her career as a television and film producer, with projects like "The New Card Sharks", (1978) as well as "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). Her most famous TV role was that of "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). The actress was on an entire 156 episodes of this show between 1984 and 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet as well as a noted nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 to 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). Born in Palo Alto, California, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. She was an athlete at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree fr...

Sarah Chalke was conceived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on the 27th of August, 1976. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. She is the middle child. She has one older sister, Natasha Chalke and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career in the film City Boy (1992), an original television film. After her debut film, Sarah auditioned in 1993 for the role "Becky" from Roseanne (1988). The show was in search of the replacement for Alicia Goranson, who left the show in order to attend university. Sarah graduated high school in 1995 and began filming the 1994-1995 Roseanne (1988) season. Also, in 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film Ernest Goes to School (1994), along with Jim Varney. In 1996, Sarah played in two films: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996), where she was an actress called Krista Wilson. Sarah was invited to be a part in a 1998 TV show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. The show was released one year following Rosea...

Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumna. She also graduated of the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also part of the comedy duo "Cory!". She has been a two-time Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Female Improviser. She has also won awards for Best Comedic play in 2008 and Best Sketch Troupe in 2006. She has appeared in a variety of roles in the shows "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" and "Almost Heroes," as well. She played a frequent role in "The Ron James Show" as well as guest appearances in "Lost Girl," "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Other television and film credits include "Video on Trial,"" "Hotbox" as well as the Academy Award-nominated movie "Lars and the Real Girl." She voices Sam in "The Dating Guy" an animated Canadian series. In the years 2019 and 2020, her net worth has grown significantly. How mu...

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 is of German, English and Dutch heritage. Her family lived just next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she grew older, and she was an avid fan of movies from her early days. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked as an attorney. Paula claims that as a girl she would escape from the world by "pretending to appear to be someone else" therefore it wasn't an unsurprising that she performed in plays for high school at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her most loved role was one of Abigail in "The Crucible". After having graduated from the University of Southern California's summer camp, she pursued film studies and was given a 3-month assignment to create documentaries on PBS. She was later hired as a production assistant for documentaries for television and Howie Mandel's talk show. After a few month...

Born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Amy Carlson spent most of her early life in the Chicago area. Amy was a part of her family in Chicago while she was in junior high. Her parents, Bob, and Barb taught at the American School in the Middle East. Amy is the sister Betsy, Lori, and brother Joe. Amy has backpacked all over Europe with her family and independently. Since her parents worked as teachers, they were able to travel together every summer, and camping across the United States. They've camped across every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy traveled to Rwanda to aid in efforts to aid in the aftermath of the war in 1994. Amy was an accomplished actor in school plays and also won writing contests. High school was where she excelled in athletics taking part in the first ever 3200-meter relay to be held for girls in Illinois track. After sustaining an injury, she was able to go back to the stage and take on a variety of roles in plays, including Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of J...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was the daughter of Eduardo Cruz (a retailer) and Encarna Sanchez (a hairdresser). When she was a young girl she was already a voracious performer, re-enacting commercials on television for her family's amusement, but she decided to devote her energy to dancing. She continued to study with a number of well-respected dancers, after having spent the last nine years learning ballet at Spain's National Conservatory. She discovered her true calling at age 15, when she topped 300 girls in an audition for an agency for talent. The resultant contract secured her several roles in Spanish television shows and music videos. This paved the way for a future career on the screen. Cruz made her debut in a film with The Greek Labyrinth (1993). (The Greek Labyrinth). After that she was briefly featured in Framed (1992) by Timothy Dalton. The Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992) was her third film. In the film she played one of the four sisters who were competing for the affec...

Milena Govich is an actor director, musician, and actor. She has helmed numerous episodes of TV such as Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). She was also the Co-EP/Producing director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently a part of two pilots that are currently in the process of development. Milena was selected as one of eight directors in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. Unspeakable the short film she created, as well as a TV series proof of concept was shown at SXSW. It also took home Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017) has been screened across the nation and won the 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 more than 100 television shows. She first gained national attention in CBS...

Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated stage, film and television actor. Her birthplace was in Dallas, Texas and raised in New Jersey. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. The film starred her in "The Prestige" by Christopher Nolan with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" and "Because I Said So", along with "Because I Said So" featuring Diane Keaton and Guy Pearce. Alongside "Cheaper by the Dozen", Lena Heady, Matthew Goode as well as the crime thriller "10th and Wolf" She also appeared with James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci fi action film "Looper," she starred with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. In television Perabo starred as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of the USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs." After that, she was a co-star on ABC's 2016 legal drama "Notorious. "And will be next seen on Netflix in "Turn Up Charlie" toge...

Ayelet Zuer, an Israeli actress, has been praised 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 film role as Eric Bana’s wife in Munich (2005). Zurer is an American actress that has appeared in Studio films, such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point and Vantage Point, starring Dennis Quaid (with William Hurt), Samuel Goldwyn’s Fugitive pieces opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected in the film with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons opposite Tom Hanks. Darling Companion is an ensemble film by Lawrence Kasdan which features Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Warner Bros. Man Of Steel with Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor shot Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert, and she was waiting for the release of The Last Knights, a film by Kazuaki Kiriya, starring Clive Owen. In recognition of her performance as Hostages' lead actress, she won the Gold...

Pollyanna McIntosh was a child in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her home in Scotland which is where she first began to perform on stage on stage at The Edinburgh Festival. She moved to London at 16 and quickly was involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. The first time she was paid was as a stoner for Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998). She also performed as an actress and director in the theatre. Moving to Los Angeles in 2004 led to more theatre. She directed Anne Dudek (a regular star on Mad Men/Big Love (2006)) as and David Dayan Fisher (a regular star in 24 (2001/NCIS 2003)) to great reviews. In Headspace (2005), she landed her first US film role as "Stacy" who was a manipulative person who was a newly-baptized Christian. The role was later recast as "Thumper Wint", a unorthodox, born-again, Christian in Sex and Death 101 (2006) (Simon Baker/Winona Rider) and directed by Heathers (1988). The reviewers were awed by her unique combination of th...

Paget Valerie Brewster is an American actor, voice actress as well as a singer. Her fame was first recognized due to her recurring role as Kathy on the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. Her first big role was Emily Prentiss, a Supervisory Special Agent on Criminal Minds. From 2006 to 2012 she appeared on Criminal Minds regularly. She has returned for guest appearances since then and is now returning to Criminal Minds frequently in 2016. She also portrayed 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, marking the first appearance in animated form for the character. Brewster was born on the 10th of March 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew) was employed by the the government. Her father Galen Brewster worked as school administrator. Brewster was born in Massachusetts. She...

Pom Klementieff was born the 3rd of May 1986. She was trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has been featured in films such as Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She is the character 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 born in Quebec City, Canada, to her Korean mother and French-Russian father who was employed as a consul in the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter, was her grandfather. Pom was her name because it sounds like the Korean words "spring" and 'tiger" in Korean. Klementieff was a citizen of Canada for a single year. Her family had traveled extensively as a result of her father's work. After moving to France she lived in Japan. Klementieff lost her father to cancer at age five. Her mother was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Klementieff was raised in France by her...