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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. She began taking dance lessons at the age of eight. She attended Van Nuys High School, in which she was a senior class president and head cheerleader. She graduated from high school in the year 1980. Following graduation, she began college at Cal State Northridge. There, she majored 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 recruited her to choreograph the 1984 "Torture" the first of a series of videos and movies she choreographed. Her first album "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. This was helped by her stint on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father (Harry Abdul), is Sephardic Jewish and hails from Syr

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is best known for her portrayals on screen in modern and historical roles. She also has a long list of roles on stage and screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the child of Eileen (Mundy), an Irish-American computer consultant, and John McDonnell. She was born in Ithaca, New York and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. She attended the drama school and then was accepted into Long Wharf Theatre Company (East Coast). Her most memorable film role was in Dances with Wolves (1990) by Kevin Costner. She played the character "Stands with a Fist" as a Sioux Indian-born white woman. Her first Academy Award nomination was for the role. McDonnell's film credits include the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991) and Mumford (1999) (opposite other experienced actors as Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley); Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996) (starring Will

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist who worked previously as an anchor for television at ABC News. She is best known for her stint as cohost of Good Morning America Weekend, 2014-2018, and as host of The View, 2015-2018. She was previously co-anchor of 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 worked in radio sales. She was eventually able to find work for an entire year as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT . She then occasionally anchor and report. She was the weekend and weekday sports anchors for WCPO TV, Cincinnati, from 2002 until. When her contract ended in 2005, she was a anchor and sports reporter for the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 to December 2011. In December 2011 she was employed by ABC News which is the division for news of ABC. She joined the network for its World N

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and began her career in films and TV shows such as Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and then went on to produce such projects as Double Dare (1976) and was a guest on TV shows such as 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (2001). She is perhaps most famous for her role as "Christine Sullivan", the Night Court star (1984). From 1984 to 1992 she was a part of 156 shows. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She is famous for her poetry and as a nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918-April 7, 2015). Two daughters, Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1987) and Daisy Ross (born on March 30 in 1990), were her second marriage to Michael A. Ross. She was born in Palo alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek in California. She was an athlete at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon aw

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was born on 27 August 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. She is the middle child with one older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's acting debut was in City Boy (1992), a movie made for TV. After her debut film was a success, Sarah auditioned for the role "Becky" of Roseanne (1988). Following the time that Alicia Goranson left the show to attend college, the show was searching for the perfect replacement. Sarah graduated from highschool in 1995 and was a part in the production of Roseanne (1988) between 1994 and 1995. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). Sarah was also in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand against Fear(1996). In these films she played the character of Krista Wilson, the cheerleader. Sarah was asked to appear in a 1998 show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. The show was released one year following Roseanne (1988). Bas

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumni. She is also an alumna from the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also a part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She has been an Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for the Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she took home the best Comedic play award and in 2006, she received the Best Sketch Troupe award. She has performed a range of characters in "Scare Tactics" as well as "Almost Heroes," an Canadian television series. She was a regular on "The Ron James Show" in addition to guest roles in "Call Me Fitz," "Cracked," and "Bomb Girls." She was also featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Academy Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voiced Sam in animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has increased substantially between the years 2019 and 2020. How much money does Lauren Ash make at 37 y

Paula Patton

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Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden), Patton, and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American , and her mother who is caucasian is of German, English, and Dutch roots. Her family lived directly next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she grew up, and she was an avid movie buff from her early days. Her mother, too, who appreciated good films, was a schoolteacher, and her father was a lawyer. Paula states that as young, she would try to escape from the world by "pretending to appear to be someone else" which is why it came as the case that she appeared in plays for high school at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her most loved role was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". In the end, she chose to learn film at the University of Southern California in a summer program, and won a 3-month assignment making documentaries for PBS. The result was that she was able to work as a production assistant on television documentaries as well as on Howie Mandel’s talk

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent her entire childhood living in Chicago. However, at the time Amy was in junior high, she and her family also lived in the 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 both on her own and with her family. They were both teachers and could travel and camp together each summer because of this. They've camped in every state, except Alaska. Amy was also in Rwanda following the war in 1994 to assist in relief efforts. From the beginning, Amy showed artistic talent performing in school productions, and winning contests for writing. She was a promising athlete in high school and participated in the very first 3200 meter relay in Illinois girls track. In college, after an injury, she returned the stage with a variety of roles on stage beginning with Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July"

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. She was a compulsive performer as a young girl and even reenacted commercials on TV to amuse the family. But she chose to concentrate her energy on dance. After pursuing classical ballet for 9 years in Spain's National Conservatory, she continued her training under a series of prominent dancers. She found her calling at the age 15 when she topped 300 girls in an audition for an agency that represented talent. The contract she got secured her roles on Spanish TV shows , as well as music videos. This opened the possibility of a lucrative career on the big screen. 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). Her final film, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning film where she played one of the four sisters competing to win the love of an attractive deserter army

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich, a writer and actor, has directed numerous episodes of TV such as Chicago Med (2015), The Equalizer (2021), FBI The Most Wanted(2020), Chicago Fire (2012) as well as other. Also, she was co-producer and Co-EP on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently a part of two pilots that are in progress. Milena was chosen as one of eight directors for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. Unspeakable, her short film as well as a television series proof of concept was premiered at SXSW. It also won Best Episodic Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017 produced by Milena Vandervoort) was screened across the nation. 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 given at Sedona International Film Festival. Milena has acted in over 100 television episodes acti

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globes in the category of stage, TV, and film actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and living in New Jersey, she graduated with a summa cum Laude degree from Ohio University. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. Since then, she's been featured in films such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" featuring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow", with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me &"Imagine Me & You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th & Wolf" with an ensemble cast including James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci fi action movie "Looper," she starred alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. In television Perabo starred as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network's spy thriller "Covert Af

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zurer one of Israel's best beloved actresses, is a truly special woman. She was born in Tel Aviv and was first noticed 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 that has been featured in Studio films, such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point and Vantage Point, starring Dennis Quaid (with William Hurt) Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive pieces with Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected along with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons is opposite Tom Hanks. Darling companion, a Lawrence Kasdan cast, stars Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel, opposite Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. She also filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert opposite Ewan McGregor in addition to awaiting the release of the film The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya opposite Clive Owen. Recently, she received the Gold Nymp

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her hometown of Scotland in Scotland, where she was born. It was here that she first began to perform on stage on stage at The Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 16, she moved to London and soon became involved in filmmaking in the indie genre (her first paid gig was as an actor in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre and acting as both an actress as well as a director. A move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought new theatre opportunities, including a production of "The Woolgatherer" and in which 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 was offered her first US film role as "Stacy" who was a manipulative, born-again Christian. The role was later recast as "Thumper Wint", a rebellious, born-again Christian in Sex and Death 101 (2006)

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie Brewster is an American actor, voice actress as well as a singer. Her first recognition came from her role as Kathy in the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. The first time she was recognized was her role as Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime series Criminal Minds. She was a regular guest on that show regularly from 2006 until 2012. She has returned often since then , with guest appearances. Her other roles include voiceovers for Elise as well as Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart on the last 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 that marked the first animated appearance for the character. Brewster was conceived in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10 in 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew), worked as a government official, and her father, Galen Brewster, worked as

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff was born 3 May 1986. She attended the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris. Her role includes Loup (2009) and Sleepless Night (2011). She is the Mantis character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film 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 a French-Russian father who was employed as a consul in the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Since it sounds like the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger" her parents named their daughter Pom. Klementieff lived in Canada for one year. Her family had traveled extensively due to her father's job. They resided in Japan and the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Her father, who passed away from cancer at age 5 was her mother. She was also suffering from schizophrenia , and could not care for her children. Klementieff was raised with her paternal