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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. When she was eight years of age, she began dance lessons. She went to Van Nuys High School, where she was senior class president and head cheerleader. She graduated from high school in the year 1980. After graduating, she began the college process at Cal State Northridge. There she studied 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 hired her to choreograph their 1984 video "Torture" which was the first in a lengthy line of movies and videos she would choreograph. Following her debut album "Forever Your Girl" started singing, she turned to singing and was soon a well-known performer and dancer. Her stint as an American Idol judge (2002) has helped her become an increasingly popular performer/dancer. Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic Jewish b...

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell is a two-time Oscar(r)-nominated actress, she is well-known for her character portrayals in both contemporary and period screen roles, and the long list of acting in stage and film. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy), a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Fredonia. She later attended drama school and was accepted into 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 role of "Stands with a Fist" who was a Sioux Indian raised white woman. Her first Academy Award nomination was for the role. McDonnell's film credits include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999) as well as opposite veteran actors such as Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmerich’s Inde...

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist who previously worked as the TV correspondent for ABC News. Her roles as co-anchor for Good Morning America Weekend (2014-2018) and co-host of The View (2015-2018) are very well-known. Prior to this, 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. Due to the lack of TV opportunities she worked in radio sales. After one year working as a production assistant with WKEF/WRGT. She was then capable of reporting and anchoring on occasion. She was one of the weekend and weekday sports anchors at WCPO TV, Cincinnati, from 2002 to 2005. She became a reporter for sports for the NBC's Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV between November 2005 and December 2011 after her contract ended. She was recruited by ABC News the news division in the month of December. On J...

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She started her career as a film and TV producer, notably "The New Card Sharks", (1978) and "Card Sharks" (1986). She continued to produce projects such as Double Dare (1976), and was a guest on numerous TV shows, including E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Her most memorable TV performance was as "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). From 1984 to 1992 she was in 156 episodes. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet and a well-known nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 until April 7 15th, 2015). Alongside her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). She was born in Palo alto, California and grew up near Walnut Creek in California. She was a cheerleader at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. Earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Lewis & Clark C...

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. She has an older sister Natasha Chalke and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah made her acting debut in a made-for-TV movie, City Boy (1992). In 1993, shortly after her debut film, she auditioned for the role of "Becky" on the TV show Roseanne (1988). The show was looking for an alternative to the character after Alicia Goranson quit the show to go to college. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995 as she was filming the 1994-1995 Roseanne (1988) season. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). In 1996, Sarah was a part-time actress in two movies: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996) as a cheerleader who was named Krista Wilson. Sarah was asked to play a character on a television show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998) which was a year following Roseanne (1988). Bas...

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumna. She is also an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is one half of sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She is a two-time Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Female Improviser and has been awarded for Best Comedic Show in 2008 and Best Sketch Troupe in 2006. She has appeared in a variety of characters in "Scare Tactics," and "Almost Heroes,"" which is a Canadian TV show. She played a recurring character in "The Ron James Show" and was a guest on "Lost Girl,"" "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Her television and film credits also include "Video on Trial," Hotbox and the Academy Award-nominated "Lars and the Real Girl." She plays Sam in "The Dating Guy" an animated Canadian show. Her wealth has grown significant in 2019 and 2020. What's the sum of Lauren Ash worth at the age of 37? Lauren Ash...

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 is caucasian. She is of German, English, Dutch and English family ancestry. Her family lived right across from the 20th Century Fox lot when she was young and she was a lover of movies in her early days. Her mother, who also loved good films, was a schoolteacher, as was her father, an attorney. Paula states that as an adult she would escape by "pretending to appear to be someone else" so it was not a surprise that she acted in plays for high school at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite role was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". She continued her studies at the University of Southern California, where she completed a summer course in film. It was during this time that she was granted a three-month task to create documentaries on PBS. In the end, she was able to work as a production assistant on television documentaries as well a...

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and was a part of her early years living in Chicago. 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 as well as independently. Both of them were teachers and were able to travel and camp together every summer because of this. They've camped across every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy traveled to Rwanda in 1994 following the war in order to help with aid efforts to help the victims. Amy was a talented actor in school plays , and she won writing contests. High school was where she was a star athlete, placing in the first ever 3200 meter relay race for girls in the Illinois track. After an injury, she returned to college and played many parts on the stage, starting with Lanford Wilson’s “Fifth of July” and then directing Wallace Shaw...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez was the daughter of Eduardo Cruz (a retailer) and Encarna Sanchez (a hairdresser). When she was a toddler she was an obsessed performer. She would even re-enact TV commercials for the amusement of her family. However, she decided to focus her efforts on dance. After pursuing classical ballet for nine years in Spain's National Conservatory, she continued her education under a variety of famous dancers. At 15, however she discovered her true purpose when she beat more than 300 other girls at an audition for a talent agency. The contract she signed secured her a variety of roles in Spanish television shows as well as music videos, which in turn led to a career on the big screen. Cruz made her film debut in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). She then briefly was in Framed (1992), a Timothy Dalton thriller. The third film she starred in was an Oscar-winning film, Belle Epoque (1992), where she played one of four sisters vying for the affection of...

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is an actor, director, and musician. She has directed a number of episodes of TV and film, including Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). Milena was the Co-EP/Producing director on Dick Wolf’s CBS show FBI (2018) and is currently attached for two pilots. Milena was selected as one of the eight directors to take part in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. Unspeakable was her short film and TV show proof of concept was shown at SXSW. It also received Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017, by Milena Vandervoort) was screened across the nation. It won 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 appeared as an actor for more than 100 television shows. She first gained national attention in CBS...

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo has been nominated for an Golden Globe as a stage actress, television and film actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and living in New Jersey, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ohio University. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. She was seen in "The Prestige" directed by Christopher Nolan with Hugh Jackman & Christian Bale, "Because I Said So", and "Because I Said So" as well as "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 & Wolf" in which she also starred alongside James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. She starred alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action flick "Looper.". Perabo was Annie Walker's television part in five seasons on the USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs." After that, Perabo pl...

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zurer one of Israel's most beloved actresses, is a special lady. Her birthplace is in Tel Aviv, and first was noticed by Hollywood when she was cast by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking role as Eric Bana's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Zurer has been featured in numerous Studio films since her arrival in America, which includes Sony Pictures' Vantage Point opposite William Hurt and Dennis Quaid Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected in the role of Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons is opposite Tom Hanks. Darling companion Lawrence Kasdan's film, stars Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline as well as Warner Bros. Man Of Steel, opposite Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. Ewan McGregor was the director of Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert. She also waited for the release of The Last Knights, a film directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, opposite Clive Owen. For he...

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh grew up in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her birthplace of Scotland which is where she first started performing on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. She relocated to London at the age of 16, and swiftly began to get involved in independent filmmaking. Her first pay-per-view was working as a stoner in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998). She also worked as an actress and director in theatre. In 2004, her move 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 actor in 24 (2001/NCIS 2003)) to rave reviews. Her first US movie role was as "Stacy" as the manipulative woman who was a born again Christian as seen in Headspace (2005). It was as the crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder) written from Heathers (1988) author Daniel Waters, that the reviewers began to be aware of her talent, citing a...

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie Brewster is an American voice actress, actor as well as a singer. Her character as Kathy an recurring character on Friends Season 4, was her first recognition. Her most memorable role came in the form of Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds that she was a regular on the show from 2006 until 2012 and is now back as a guest on the show before returning frequently in 2016. Her other roles include voicing Elise as well as Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in the final season of Community and as the voice of Birdgirl in 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, marking the first time that she appeared in animated form for the character. Brewster was conceived in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10 of 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew) was a state official. Galen Brewster was her father, and was an administr...

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff, a French actress, was born 3 May 1986. She studied at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been in movies such as 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 the daughter of the Korean mother and an American-Russian father. Her father was consul in Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Her parents chose the name "Pom" because it's like the Korean words for both "spring" as well as "tiger". Klementieff was a citizen of Canada for a single year. Her family had travelled extensively due to her father's work. After moving to France she lived in Japan. Her father was diagnosed with cancer when she was 5 and her mother was suffering from schizophrenia and was incapable of caring for children and ...