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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. When she was eight years old, she began taking dance classes. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the school's head cheerleader as well as the class president. She graduated in 1980 and began college at Cal State Northridge to major 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 their 1984 film "Torture" which was their first of a series of films and videos she choreographed. The first album she released was "Forever Your Girl", her singing career took off. But the hit single "Straight Up" was a big hit and she's become a popular singer/dancer for years after. This was helped by her appearance on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father, Harry Abdul, is Sephardic Jewish from Syria. Her ...

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is famous for her portrayals of characters in period and contemporary screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) she was the daughter of a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. Born in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. Then, she went to the drama school and was accepted to the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. Her first film role came in Dances with Wolves (1990) by Kevin Costner. She played the character "Stands with a Fist" an Indian Sioux-raised white woman. The first time she received an Academy Award nomination was for the character. McDonnell's film credits include the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991) and Mumford (1999) (opposite other well-known actors like Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley); Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996) (...

Paula Faris is an American journalist from the US. She previously worked as the TV reporter for ABC News. Her tenures as co-anchor on Good Morning America Weekend (2014-2018) and co-host on The View (2015-2018) are popular. She was also the co-anchor of America This Morning as well as 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 the limited opportunities on TV she worked in sales for radio. After a year of working as a production assistant for WKEF/WRGT, she was eventually able to report and anchor occasionally. She was the anchor for weekends for WCPO TV in Cincinnati and the weekday anchor at WCPO TV in Cincinnati from 2002 to 2005. When her contract ended, she became a anchor and reporter for sports at the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 to December 2011. In December 2011, she was recruited by ABC News the news division of ABC. On January 2...

Markie Post was born in Walnut Creek, California. Her first professional work was in television and film productions like "Card Sharks" (1978) or "The New Card Sharks” (1986). Then, she created projects such as Double Dare (1976). She has also appeared in TV shows such as 1st to Die (2003) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001), and Dyna Girl (2001). Her most notable TV role was that of "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). She was in the show's 156 episodes from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet, and well-known nuclear physicist 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 June 26, 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). She was born in Palo alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek, California. She was a cheerleader at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California. She gra...

Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. Sarah is the middle child, with one older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's first acting role was in City Boy (1992), the TV-produced film. 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 go to college The show was looking for an alternative. Sarah completed her high school graduation in 1995 during the filming of the 1994-1995 seasons of Roseanne (1988). Also, in 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film Ernest Goes to School (1994) together with Jim Varney. She starred in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand against Fear(1996). In both films Sarah played the role of Krista Wilson who was an athlete. In 1998, just a year following the time that Roseanne (1988) ended, Sarah was asked to perform in a show titled Nothing Too Good...

Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumna. She is also an Second City Toronto Mainstage alumna as well as one half of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She is a twice-winner of the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also took home the best Comedic Play and the 2006 Best Sketch Troupe awards. She's been in various roles on "Scare Tactics" and the Canadian TV series, "Almost Heroes." She was a regular in "The Ron James Show" and was a guest in "Call Me Fitz,""Cracked,"""Bomb Girls," and "Lost Girl." Other television and film credits include "Video on Trial,"" "Hotbox" as well as the Academy Award-nominated movie "Lars and the Real Girl." She is the voice of Sam in "The Dating Guy," an animated Canadian show. In the years 2019 and 2020, her net worth has risen significant. How much money does Lauren Ash make at 37 years of ...

Paula Patton was the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her mother is caucasian, has German, English, and Dutch her ancestry. Her family lived right across from the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing old and she was a huge fan of films from her earliest childhood. Her mother, too, who enjoyed good films, was a schoolteacher, as was her father, an attorney. Paula claims that as an adult 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 favorite role was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". She pursued her studies at the University of Southern California, where she completed a program for summers in film. In that time, she was awarded a three-month task to create documentaries on PBS. The result was that she began working as a production assistant for televisi...

Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent her entire childhood living in Chicago. However, at the time Amy was in high school her family also resided in the Middle East where her parents, Bob and Barb, taught at the American School. Amy is the youngest of three siblings: sisters Betsy and Lori and Joe, the brother. Joe. Amy has traveled extensively across Europe with her family and also on her own. They both taught and could travel and camp together each summer due to this. They've camped across every state except Alaska. Amy also went to Rwanda after the 1994 war to help in relief efforts. Early on, Amy showed artistic talent acting in school productions as well as winning contests for writing. In high school she was a promising athlete who won the first ever 3200 meter relay at the Illinois girls track. After a college accident, she returned to the theater and performed in a variety on stage starting with Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July" and directin...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was the daughter of Eduardo Cruz (a retailer) and Encarna Sanchez (a hairdresser). As a child she was an obsessed performer, and would reenact commercials on TV for the entertainment of her parents. However, she chose to concentrate on dance. After pursuing classical ballet for nine years in the Spanish National Conservatory, she continued her training under a series of famous dancers. She realized what she wanted to do at the age of 15 when she smashed more than 300 other girls in an audition with an agency for talents. The contract she signed secured her roles on Spanish television shows as well as music videos. It opened the possibility of a lucrative career on the big screen. Cruz made her debut film in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). She also briefly made an appearance in Framed (1992) the Timothy Dalton thriller. Her third film, Belle Epoque (1992), was an Oscar-winning production where she played one of four sisters who were trying to ...

Milena Govich is a writer, director musician, actor, and actor who has directed many episodes of TV, including The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012), among others. Milena served as the Co-EP/Producing Director for Dick Wolf’s CBS series FBI (2018) and is currently in the process of completing two pilots. Milena was one of the eight women selected for AFI’s highly regarded Directing Workshop for Women. She also took part in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Unspeakable is her short film as well as a television show proof of concept, was shown at SXSW. It also won Best Episodic Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. The short film she made, Temporary (2017) has been screened across the United States and was awarded the Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest, and the Director's Choice Award at Sedona Int...

Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated stage, film and TV actor. Born in Dallas, Texas, and living in New Jersey, she graduated summa cum Laude from Ohio University. She was in the film Coyote Ugly's breakout role in the year 2000. She has been in a variety of 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 with Steve Martin, "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen" films, "10th & Wolf" crime drama with a cast that included Dennis Hopper and James Marsden. Perabo starred alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action movie "Looper.". Perabo played Annie Walker on US...

Ayelet Zurer one of Israel's most well-known actresses is an extremely special person. She was born in Tel Aviv, and first attracted the attention of Hollywood when she was enlisted by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking role as Eric Bana's character's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Since arriving in the United States, Zurer has appeared in Studio films including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt as well as Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Pieces with 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 an ensemble Lawrence Kasdan casting that features Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel opposite Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor was her filming partner in Rodrigo Garcia's Last Days in Desert. Also, she waited for The Last Knights to be released by Kazuaki Kriya who is ...

Pollyanna McIntosh is a native of Scotland. She was born in Portugal, Colombia and then returned to Scotland. That's where she began her stage debut in The Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 16, she moved to London where she became involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. (Her first professional gig on The Acid House was as a stoner with Irvine Welsh (1998)). She has also participated in theater as an actress as well as director. In 2004, she relocated to Los Angeles to direct "The Woolgatherer" which was a stage play in which Anne Dudek (a regular guest on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) was the director. It received great reviews. She was then offered her first US film role as the manipulative and a born-again Christian, "Stacy", in Headspace (2005). She was then cast in the role of "Thumper Wint", a wild, born-again Christian, in Sex and Death 101 (2006) (Simon Baker/Winona Rider) as played by Heathers (1988). The reviewers were awed by her distinc...

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 (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris. Her roles include Loup (2009) as well as Sleepless Night (2011). She plays the Mantis character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was raised in Quebec City to a Korean father and a French-Russian mother. He was employed as consul for the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Because it sounds similar to the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger", her parents gave their daughter the name Pom. Klementieff was in Canada for a year prior to her family was able to travel extensively because of her father's job. Before moving to France, they lived in Japan and on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff lost her father to cancer at age five. Her mother was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Klementieff was raised in France b...