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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. She began taking dance lessons at the age of eight. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was senior class head cheerleader and president. Her graduation was 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 hired her to choreograph their 1984 film "Torture" it was the first in a lengthy sequence of videos and movies she choreographed. She started singing in her first album, "Forever Your Girl" which was not a huge success until her hit single "Straight Up" exploded onto the charts in December 1988 . she's been a household dancer ever since, aided by her role as judge on the cult series American Idol (2002). Her father (Harry Abdul), is Sephardic Jewish and hails from Syria. Her mo...

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell is a two-time Oscar(r)-nominated actress, who is well-known for her character portrayals that span both present and past screen roles, as well as the long list of acting in stage and film. Mary Eileen McDonnell was born on the 28th of April 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Eileen (Mundy) and John McDonnell, a computer consultant both from Irish descent. Raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Fredonia. After that, she went to drama school , and was admitted to the famous Long Wharf Theatre Company on the East Coast. In the following two decades she was offered her first film role, in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990), playing "Stands with a Fist" as a white woman raised by the Sioux Indians. The actress received her first Academy Award nomination for the role. McDonnell has been in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) in the role of experienced actors as Robert Redf...

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist from the United States. She was previously an anchor for TV on ABC News. She is known for her work as co-anchor for Good Morning America Weekend from 2015 to 2018, and being co-host of The View from 2015 to 2018. She was also co-anchor on 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 lack of TV opportunities the company employed her in radio sales. Her next job was a year as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT and later occasionally report and anchor. Between 2002 and 2005, she was the weekend sports anchor and the weekday sports anchor for WPO-TV in Cincinnati. The contract was ended and she was hired as a reporter and anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV, Chicago, from November 2005 to December 2011. She was employed by ABC News' news division in the month of December. The 2nd of January, ...

Markie Post

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Markie Post was born in Walnut Creek, California. Her first professional work was with television and film productions like "Card Sharks" (1978) or "The New Card Sharks” (1986). Later, she worked on projects such as Double Dare (1976). Also, she has appeared on television shows like 1st to Die (2003) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001) as well as Dyna Girl (2001). Her most famous TV performance was as "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). She was in 156 episodes of this comedy, from 1984 to 1992. She was the daughter of Marylee (Armstrong) Post, poet and noted nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14, 1918 - April 7 15th, 2015). Two daughters, Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1987), and Daisy Ross (born on March 30 in 1990) were born in her second marriage to Michael A. Ross. She was born in Palo alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek, California. She was an athlete at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, Ca...

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was conceived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 27 August 1976. Her parents are Angie Chalke and Doug Chalke. Sarah is the middle child, having an older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah made her acting debut in a made-for-TV film, City Boy (1992). In 1993, after her debut film, she auditioned for the part of "Becky" in the TV show Roseanne (1988). The show was searching for a replacement after Alicia Goranson quit the show to go to college. Sarah completed her high school graduation in the year 1995, when she was filming the season 1994-1995 of Roseanne (1988). In 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film, Ernest Goes to School (1994), along with Jim Varney. In 1996, Sarah was a part-time actress in two movies: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996) where she was a cheerleader with the name Krista Wilson. In 1998, a year after Roseanne (1988) ended, Sarah was asked to play a character in a TV show called Nothing Too Good for a Cow...

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent graduate of the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also a graduate of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is one half of sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's been a Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for the title of Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she won the Best Comedic Play award , and in 2006, she was awarded the Best Sketch Troupe Award. She's been featured in different roles on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" as well. She had a recurring role in "The Ron James Show" and also appeared in "Lost Girl," "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Her film and television credits also include "Video on Trial," Hotbox and the Academy Award-nominated "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voiced Sam in the animated Canadian show "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has grown dramatically between 2019 and 2020. How much is Lauren Ash's net worth at 3...

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 has German, English, Dutch and English roots. Her family lived right 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 mother, a schoolteacher and her father, a lawyer, were both avid fans of films. Paula says that she used to hide from her mother by pretending to be someone else as young. It's not a surprise that she took part in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School's plays for high school students. Her favorite role was that of "Abigail" in "The Crucible". She continued her studies at University of Southern California, where she completed a course in film. In that time, she was awarded a three-month assignment to make documentaries for PBS. She was later hired as a production assistant for television documentaries as well as Howie Mandel's talk ...

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 resided in GlenEllyn, Illinois, until she was in junior college. The family also resided in Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy is the older sister of Betsy, Lori, and brother Joe. Amy has traveled throughout Europe on her own as well as with her family. Since her parents worked as teachers who taught, they could spend every summer together traveling and camping all across the United States. They have camped in every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy has also traveled to Rwanda after the war in 1994 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 excelled in athletics and was the first to participate in the ever 3200-meter relay to be held for girls in the Illinois track. After sustaining an injury, she returned to college and per...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez is the daughter of Eduardo Cruz, a Madrid hairdresser, and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser from Madrid. She was an obsessive performer as a young girl and would reenact TV commercials to keep the family entertained. However, she chose to concentrate her energy on dancing. She continued her dance training with a number of well-respected dancers, after having spent nine years studying classical ballet at Spain's National Conservatory. She realized what she wanted to do at the age of 15, when she beat more than 300 other girls during an audition with a talent agency. The contract she received landed her roles in Spanish TV programs as well as music videos. This opened the possibility of a lucrative career on the big screen. Cruz made her debut in a film with The Greek Labyrinth (1993). (The Greek Labyrinth). After that she appeared in a brief scene in Framed (1992) by Timothy Dalton. Her third film was an Oscar-winning film, Belle Epoque (1992), where she was one ...

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is an actress as well as a director and musician. She has directed many episodes of TV and film, including Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). Additionally, she was the Co-EP/Producing director of Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently a part of two pilots currently in development. Milena was among eight women who were selected by AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. She also participated in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Unspeakable was her TV series as well as a short film. Starring Jeff Kober and Laura Vandervoort It was awarded the Best Episodic Award at Seattle International Film Festival as and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. The short film Temporary (2017) was shown across the country. She was awarded the award for Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival. Best Dark Comedy Award at Atlanta ShortsFest. and the Director's Choice Award from Sedona International Film Festival...

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated stage, film and television actor. She was born in Dallas and raised in New Jersey. In 2000, she was chosen as a breakout actor in Coyote Ugly. She appeared in "The Prestige" directed by Christopher Nolan with Hugh Jackman & Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" and "Because I Said So", along with "Because I Said So" featuring Diane Keaton and Guy Pearce. Alongside "Cheaper by the Dozen", Lena Heady, Matthew Goode as well as the crime drama "10th & Wolf", she also starred alongside James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci-fi action film "Looper," she starred with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. In television Perabo appeared as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs." Then she starred as a co-star in ABC's legal drama "Notorious. "And is set to appear on Netflix in "Turn Up ...

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zuer is an Israeli actress who has received praise for her performance. Her birthplace is in Tel Aviv, and first was noticed by Hollywood when she was chosen by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking part, playing Eric Bana's character's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Since moving to the United States, Zurer has been in Studio films like Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt and Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Pieces with Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected opposite Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons opposite Tom Hanks. Darling Companion is an ensemble movie by Lawrence Kasdan which includes Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Warner Bros. Man Of Steel along with Russell Crow. She was a part of Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert opposite Ewan McGregor while waiting for the release of the film The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya, who is also ...

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh is a native of Scotland. She was raised in Portugal, Colombia and then returned to Scotland. It was here that she began to perform on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. When she was 16, she moved to London and was soon involved in the indie filmmaking (her first job paid for was as an actor in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre and acting as both an actress and director. In 2004, she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 brought new theatre opportunities, including a production of "The Woolgatherer", in which she was director Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) and David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to great reviews. In Headspace (2005) the actress landed her first US movie part as "Stacy" who was a manipulative person who was a newly-baptized Christian. It was in the role of crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy, Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker and Winona Ryder) directed created by He...

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie is an American actress, singer and voice actor. Her first recognition came from her recurring role as Kathy in the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. Her first fame was due to her role as Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime series Criminal Minds. She was a regular guest often on the show from 2006 to 2012. She has returned regularly since then , making guest appearances. Other roles she has appeared in includes Mr. Mumbles, Elise and Mr. Mumbles in Dan Vs, Frankie Dart, Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at Lawyer, Sara Kingsley, on Fox sitcom Grandfathered, as well as portraying Donald Duck's twin sister Della as well as in DuckTales 2017. It 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 a government official. Galen Brewster was her father and worked as an administrator at school. Brewster was raised in Massachu...

Pom Klementieff

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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 ...