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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. She started dancing when she was eight. She was a student at Van Nuys High School, where she was the senior class president and head cheerleader. She graduated from high school in the year 1980. After graduation she entered the college process 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. The Jacksons hired her to choreograph their 1984 video "Torture", the first of a long line of movies and videos she choreographed. After the release of her debut CD "Forever Your Girl" she began to sing and soon became a well-known singer/dancer. Her time as an American Idol judge (2002) has made her a more popular performer/dancer. Her father (Harry Abdul), is Sephardic Jewish and hails from Syria. Her mother, also Jewish, was ...

Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is well known for her performances on screen in contemporary and historical roles. She also has a lengthy history of acting roles on stage and screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the child of Eileen (Mundy) the Irish-American computer consultant, as well as John McDonnell. She was born in Ithaca and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. She later attended drama school , and was admitted to the famous Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. Her breakthrough film role was in Dances with Wolves (1990) by Kevin Costner. She played the character "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian-raised white woman. Her first Academy Award nomination for the role. McDonnell's film credits also include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999) as well as opposite veteran actors like Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmerich’s Independe...

Paula Faris is an American journalist from the US. She was previously the TV reporter for ABC News. She is well-known for her time as co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend from 2014 to 2018 as well as being co-host of The View from 2015 to 2018. Before that, she was co-anchor of America This Morning (World News Now) and 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. The position she held was in radio sales due to limited television opportunities. She was hired as a WKEF/WRGT production assistant. Later, she became a anchor and reporter. From 2002 until 2005, she was the weekend sports anchor and sports anchor on weekdays at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. After her contract expired in 2005, she was a sports reporter and anchor at the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 through December 2011. In December 2011 she was appointed by ABC...

Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and began her career in film and TV shows, such as Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and continued to make such shows as Double Dare (1976) and appeared on such television projects as 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Her most famous TV role was that of "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). From 1984 to 1992 she was part of 156 episodes. 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). There were two daughters she had with her second husband Michael A. Ross: Katie Ross (born June 26, 1987) and Daisy Ross (born March 30 and died on March 30, 1990). She was born in Palo Alto, California and raised in Walnut Creek. Was a student at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California; she was an athlete. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Lewis &am...

Sarah Chalke was conceived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. She is the middle child of two siblings: the older one, Natasha Chalke, one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah made her acting debut in a TV-made film called City Boy (1992). After her first movie Sarah was a candidate for the role as Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. After Alicia Goranson left the show to go to college the show was searching for a replacement. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995. She was also involved in the production of Roseanne (1988) 1994-1995. Also, in 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film, Ernest Goes to School (1994) alongside Jim Varney. Then, in 1996 she was in two films that included Robin of Locksley (1996), and also Stand Against Fear (1996) where she played a cheerleadernamed "Krista Wilson". Sarah was asked to appear in a 1998 show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. It was a year following Roseanne (1988). It was ba...

Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumni. She is also an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is one half of sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's twice a winner of the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also took home the 2008 Best Comedic Play and the 2006 Best Sketch Troupe awards. She has played a variety of characters in "Scare Tactics," as well as "Almost Heroes," an Canadian TV series. She had a recurring role in "The Ron James Show" and made guest appearances in "Lost Girl,"" "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Her credits in television and film also include "Video on Trial," Hotbox and the Academy Award-nominated "Lars and the Real Girl." She also plays Sam in animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has been increasing dramatically in the period 2019-2020. How much is Lauren Ash's net wor...

Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) Patton and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American . her mother is caucasian is of German, English, and Dutch roots. As a child and her family lived next to the 20th Century Fox lot. She was a fervent movie enthusiast from childhood. Her mother, also enjoyed good films, was a schoolteacher, and her father was a lawyer. Paula says that as a girl she would escape from the world by "pretending to be someone else" which is why it came as an unsurprising that she performed in high school plays at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite character was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". She continued her studies at University of Southern California, where she completed a course in film. The program was a success, and she was awarded a three-month assignment to produce documentaries for PBS. This led to her working as a production assistant for TV documentariesand on Howie Mandel's talk show. In the fol...

Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent most of her childhood living in Chicago. Amy was a resident of Glen Ellyn the city of Illinois, up until she graduated from junior college. Her family also resided in Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy is the younger sister of Betsy, Lori, and brother Joe. Amy has traveled extensively across Europe with her family , and independently. They both worked as teachers and could travel and camp together each summer due to this. They've stayed in every state except Alaska. Amy was also in Rwanda following the war in 1994 to aid in relief efforts. Amy was a talented actor in school productions and was a winner of writing contests. In high school, she excelled as an athlete, placing in the first ever 3200-meter relay for girls in Illinois track. After suffering an injury, Amy returned to theater and perform a variety of roles that included Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July" and W...

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 compulsive performer who would recreate commercials from the television for her family's amusement, but she decided to focus her energies on dance. After studying classical ballet for 9 years in Spain's National Conservatory, she continued her studies under a group of highly acclaimed dancers. She discovered her true passion at age 15 when she smashed more than 300 other girls at an audition for an agency for talent. She was offered roles in Spanish television and music videos. This contract resulted in a variety of roles, and opened the doors to a successful career in the world of big screens. Cruz made her film debut with The Greek Labyrinth (1993). (The Greek Labyrinth). Following that she appeared briefly in Framed (1992) directed by Timothy Dalton. Her final film was an Oscar-winning film, Belle Epoque (1992), where she playe...

Milena Govich, a writer, actor and musician, has directed numerous episodes on TV including Chicago Med (2015), The Equalizer (2021), FBI The Most Wanted(2020), Chicago Fire (2012) and many more. Milena was the Co-EP/Producing Director of Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018) and is currently attached to two pilots. Milena was selected as one of the eight directors in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. Unspeakable was her TV show as well as a short film. It starred Jeff Kober and Laura Vandervoort The film won the best episodic award at the Seattle International Film Festival as and the Best Pilot award at SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017 written by Milena Vandervoort) has been shown all across the nation. It was awarded the title of 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 epi...

Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated film, stage and television actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in New Jersey. In 2000, she was cast in a starring role in Coyote Ugly. She has appeared in numerous films since then, including Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" in which she starred with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale as well as "Because I Said So" featuring 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 comprised Dennis Hopper and James Marsden. In Rian Johnson's sci-fi action movie "Looper," she starred alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. On TV, Perabo was a part of Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of the USA Network's spy thriller "Cover...

Ayelet Zurer one of Israel's best loved actresses, is an extremely special person. 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 character's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). After arriving in the United States, Zurer has appeared in Studio films including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt and Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Pieces opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons, opposite Tom Hanks, Darling Companion, a Lawrence Kasdan ensemble cast featuring Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel in the role of Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert. She also waited for the release of The Last Knights, a film by Kazuaki Kiriya, starring Clive Owen. Recently, she was honored...

Pollyanna McIntosh is a native of Scotland. She was raised in Portugal, Colombia and then returned to Scotland. This is when she started performing on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. After 16 she moved to London where she quickly became involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. (Her first gig as a paid actor on The Acid House was as a stoner alongside Irvine Welsh (1998)). In addition, she has been involved in theatre, as an actress and director. After moving to Los Angeles in 2004 led to more stage work. She directed Anne Dudek (a regular star on Mad Men/Big Love (2006)) as in addition to David Dayan Fisher (a regular character on 24 (2001/NCIS 2003)) to great reviews. In Headspace (2005), she made her debut US film role as "Stacy" an manipulative, born-again Christian. The role was later recast in the role of "Thumper Wint", a wild, born-again Christian, in Sex and Death 101 (2006) (Simon Baker/Winona Rider) and directed by Heathers (1988). The critics were impr...

Paget Valerie Brewster is an American actress, voice actress and a vocalist. Her role as Kathy as a character that recurred on Friends Season 4, was her first major recognition. Her breakthrough role was Emily Prentiss, a Supervisory Special Agent on Criminal Minds. From 2006 to 2012 , she appeared on Criminal Minds frequently. The actress has returned for guest appearances since then and has returned to Criminal Minds frequently in the year 2016. Other roles she's performed include 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 the voice of Donald Duck's twin sister Della as well as in DuckTales 2017. This was the first time that she appeared in animation as the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10 in 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew) was an official for the government. her father, Galen Brewster, worked as administrator of a sc...

Pom Klementieff (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She studied at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been in films like Loup 2009, Sleepless Night 2011 and Hacker's Game 2015. She portrays the role of Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Canada, to the parents of a Korean mother and French-Russian father who was employed as a consul in the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her great-grandfather. Her parents chose the name "Pom" because it's identical in pronunciation to Korean words for both "spring" as well as "tiger". Klementieff stayed in Canada for a time of one year, before her family travelled extensively because of her father's work. They lived in Japan and the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. The father of Klementieff died from cancer at the age of ...