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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. She began dancing when she was eight. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was the class president and head cheerleader. She graduated in 1980 and began the college process at Cal State Northridge to major in TV and radio. 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 many films and videos she choreographed. She began her singing career through her first album, "Forever Your Girl", which had lackluster sales until the single "Straight Up" exploded onto the charts in December 1988 . she has been a renowned dancer ever since, aided by her stint as an judge on the hit series American Idol (2002). Her father (Harry Abdul) is Sephardic Jewish and hails from Syria. Her mother, who is also Jewish was bo...

Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is most well famous for her performance on screen in modern and historical roles. She also has a long list of acting roles on stage and screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) who was who is a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. Later, she attended the drama school and was accepted to the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. Her most memorable film role was in Dances with Wolves (1990) by Kevin Costner. She played the role of "Stands with a Fist" an Indian Sioux-raised white woman. For the role, 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 and Sidney Poitier. She also appeared in Roland Emmerich'...

Paula Faris is an American journalist who was previously TV correspondent for ABC News. She is well-known for her work as co-anchor for Good Morning America Weekend from 2014 to 2018 and in her role as co-host on The View from 2015 to the year 2018. Prior to this she was the co-anchor on 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 limited TV opportunities she was employed in sales for radio. Her next job was an entire year as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT . She then occasionally anchor or report. She was one of the weekend and weekday sports anchors at WCPO TV, Cincinnati, between 2002 and 2005. Her contract was terminated , and she became a reporter and anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV, Chicago, from November 2005 to December 2011. In December 2011 it was revealed that she was h...

Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She began her professional career as a film and TV producer, notably "The New Card Sharks", (1978) as well as "Card Sharks," (1986). She went on to produce projects like Double Dare (1976), and was a guest on numerous television shows such as E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (2001). Her most popular role was for her role as "Christine Sullivan" in the show, who was a Night Court star (1984). She was featured in more than 156 episodes of the comedy from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet and noted nuclear physicist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 to April 7 in 2015). Two daughters, Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1987) and Daisy Ross (born on March 30 the 30th of March, 1990), were her second wedding to Michael A. Ross. Born in Palo Alto in California and raised in Walnut Creek. The school she attended was Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, Californ...

Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke, and Doug Chalke are her parents. Sarah is the middle of two siblings, the older one, Natasha Chalke, one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's acting debut came in City Boy (1992), a movie made for TV. In 1993, shortly after her debut film, she auditioned for the part of "Becky" in the TV series Roseanne (1988). The show was looking for someone to fill in for Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah completed her high school graduation in the year 1995, while filming the 1994-1995 season of Roseanne (1988). In 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film Ernest Goes to School (1994) alongside Jim Varney. In 1996, she was in two films, including Robin of Locksley (1996) as well as Stand Against Fear (1996) where she was a cheerleadernamed "Krista Wilson". Sarah was asked to play a character in a TV series named Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998), one year following Roseanne (1988). Ba...

Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumni. She is also an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's been a Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she won the award for the Best Comedic Play award and in 2006, she received the Best Sketch Troupe Award. She has played a variety of characters on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes,"" which is a Canadian TV series. She had a recurring role in "The Ron James Show" and also appeared in "Lost Girl," "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Other credits in television and film include "Video on Trial,"" "Hotbox" as well as the Academy Award-nominated movie "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voiced the character of Sam in the animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has been increasing signi...

Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) Patton and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American, and her mother is caucasian and is of German, English and Dutch ancestry. Her family lived directly next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she grew up and she was an avid enthusiast of films from the beginning of her life. Her mom was a teacher and her father was an attorney. Paula admits that she used to escape from her mother by pretending to be a different person as an infant. It's not too surprising to learn that she was a part of Hamilton Magnet Arts High School's plays for high school students. Her favorite character was that of "Abigail" in "The Crucible". However, she went on to learn film at the University of Southern California in an summer program. She was awarded a three-month project to make documentary films for PBS. Then she was employed as a production assistant for documentaries on TV and Howie Mandel's talk show. Her career progresse...

Born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Amy Carlson spent most of her early life in the Chicago region. Amy resided in GlenEllyn Illinois, right up to the time she was in junior college. There, her family also resided in Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy has two sisters, Betsy and Lori, along with a brother Joe. Amy has backpacked all over Europe with her entire family and independently. Both of them were teachers and were able to travel and camp together every summer because of this. They've camped in every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy also went to Rwanda following the 1994 war to aid in relief efforts. Amy was an accomplished actor in school plays and won writing contests. She was a promising athlete at high school and took part in the first ever 3200-meter relay in Illinois girls track. Following an injury, she could return to the stage and take on a variety of roles in plays, including Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July" ...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sanchez, hairdresser. When she was a child she was already a fervent performer, performing TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to devote her energy to dancing. After nine years of ballet training in Spain's National Conservatory she was able to continue her studies under the tutelage of a variety of prominent dancers. She found her calling at the age of 15, after she defeated over 300 girls at an audition for an agency that represented talent. The contract that resulted in her being signed secured her roles in a variety of Spanish television shows as well as music videos. This in turn set the stage for an acting career on the big screen. Cruz was first seen in a movie with The Greek Labyrinth (1993). (The Greek Labyrinth). After that, she appeared briefly in Framed (1992) by Timothy Dalton. Her final film was an Oscar-winning film, Belle Epoque (1992), in which she played on...

Milena Govich, who is a director as well as actor and musician 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 the Co-EP/Producing Director for Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018) and is attached to direct two pilots in the process of development. Milena was one of the eight women selected by AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. She also took part in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Unspeakable was her television series as well as a short film. With Jeff Kober and Laura Vandervoort It was awarded the award for Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival as and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. The film she made, Temporary (2017) was screened across the United States. The film won Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival. Best Dark Comedy Award at Atlanta ShortsFest. and the Director's Choice Award ...

Piper Perabo has been nominated for an Golden Globe as a stage as well as a TV and film actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in New Jersey, she graduated with a summa cum Laude degree from Ohio University. In 2000 she was cast in the role of a breakout character in Coyote Ugly. 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" with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and"Imagine Me & You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime drama "10th and Wolf" featuring an ensemble cast which included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. Perabo starred alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action film "Looper.". On TV, Perabo was a part of Annie Walker in all 5 seasons ...

Ayelet Zuer is an Israeli actress who has been praised for her performance. She was born in Tel Aviv, and first was noticed by Hollywood after she was cast by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking part, playing Eric Bana's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Zurer has appeared in several Studio films since her arrival in the United States, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring William Hurt and Dennis Quaid Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts, which starred Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected in the role of 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 alongside Russell Crow. She filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert opposite Ewan McGregor, as well as awaiting the release of the film The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya opposite Clive Ow...

Pollyanna McIntosh is a native of Scotland. She was born in Portugal, Colombia and then returned to Scotland. This is when she began her stage debut at The Edinburgh Festival. She moved to London when she was 16 and immediately began to get involved in independent filmmaking. The first time she was paid was as a stoner on Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998). She also performed as an actress and director in theatre. In 2004, she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 brought to the stage more shows and productions, including "The Woolgatherer" that she was the director Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) and David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to excellent reviews. Her first US movie role was as "Stacy", the manipulative woman who was a born again Christian, in Headspace (2005). It was in the role of crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder), by Heathers (1988) writer Daniel Wa...

Paget Valerie is an American actress, singer, as well as voice actor. Her first recognition was for her performance as Kathy in the fourth season's NBC sitcom Friends but she was also an actor and singer. Her breakthrough role was Emily Prentiss, a Supervisory Special Agent on Criminal Minds. From 2006 until 2012, she was a guest on Criminal Minds regularly. The actress has returned to guest appearances since and will be appearing on Criminal Minds frequently in 2016. Her other roles include voiceovers for Elise as well as Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart on the last season of Community, her voice as Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered, and voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della in the 2017 season of DuckTales making it the first time that she appeared in animated form for the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10, 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew) was a state official. Galen Bre...

Pom Klementieff is an actress from France, French actress was born on May 3, 1986. She attended the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris. Her role includes Loup (2009) as well as 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 an Korean mother and an American-Russian father. Her father was consul in Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandfather. Since it sounds like the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger" Her parents gave their daughter the name Pom. Klementieff lived for a year in Canada prior to moving her family extensively due to her father's work. Prior to making the move to France they resided in Japan as well as on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff lost her father to cancer around age five. Her mother was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Klementieff was...