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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. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the school's head cheerleader and senior class president. Following her graduation in 1980 she enrolled in college at Cal State-Northridge, majoring 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 hired her to choreograph their 1984 film "Torture" it was the first in a long sequence of videos and movies she would choreograph. With her first CD "Forever Your Girl" and her first solo album, her singing career began to take off. But the hit single "Straight Up" was a major hit and she's been a wildly successful performer/singer ever after. It was made easier by her time on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father (Harry Abdul)

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is known for her portrayals on screen in both historical and modern roles. She also has a long history of acting roles on stage and screen. 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 of Irish heritage. She was born in Ithaca and attended Fredonia State University of New York. She attended drama school, and then was accepted into the Long Wharf Theatre Company (East Coast). At the age of 22, she was when she scored her first film part in Dances with Wolves (1990) in which she was "Stands with a Fist" Sioux Indian woman who was white. The actress received 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 such as Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmeri

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris, an American journalist, worked previously as the TV reporter at ABC News. Her most well-known work is her time as cohost of Good Morning America Weekend, from 2014 to 2018, and host of The View, 2015-2018. 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 limited opportunities in television, she was offered a job as a sales representative for radio. After a year of work as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT. She was then in a position to report and anchor at times. From 2002 until 2005 she was the sports anchor for weekends 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 until December 2011. In December 2011 she was recruited by ABC News the division for news of ABC.

Markie Post

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Markie Post was born in Walnut Creek, California. Her career began in productions for television and film such as "Card Sharks" (1978) or "The New Card Sharks” (1986). Then, she created such projects as Double Dare (1976). She has also been featured on TV programs such as 1st to Die (2003) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Her most famous TV performance was as "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). From 1984 until 1992, she was a part of 156 shows. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She was an accomplished poet and nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918-April 7, 2015). Two daughters, Katie Ross (born June 26, 1987) and Daisy Ross (born on March 30 90), were her second wedding to Michael A. Ross. Born in Palo Alto in California and was raised in Walnut Creek. She was an athlete at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. Received her Bachelor of Arts degree at Lewis & Clark College in Portla

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Her parents are Angie Chalke and Doug Chalke. Sarah is the middle child having one older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's acting debut was in City Boy (1992), a movie made for TV. After her debut film her audition, she was cast in 1993 for the role "Becky" of 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 and was involved in the making of Roseanne (1988), 1994-1995. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). In 1996, she appeared in two movies that included Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996) where she was a cheerleader "Krista Wilson". Sarah was invited to appear in a TV series called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998) the same year after Roseanne (1988). Based on Nothing Too Good For a Cowbo

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent alumna of the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's a twice Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Female Improviser and has also been recognized for her Best Comedic play in 2008 and Best Sketch Troupe in 2006. She's appeared in various roles in "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." She was also featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Oscar Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She voices Sam in "The Dating Guy" an animated Canadian series. Her wealth has grown substantially in the years 2019-2020. What does Lauren Ash's net worth at 37? Lauren Ash is a successful Actress. Her country of

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 and is of German, English and Dutch heritage. Her family lived on the same street as the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing up , and she was a huge fan of movies from her early childhood. Her mother, also loved good films taught in a school, as was her father, an attorney. Paula claimed that she tried to escape when she was an infant through "pretending" to become someone else. So it's not a surprise that she was a part of Hamilton Magnet Arts High School productions. Her most loved role was one of Abigail in "The Crucible". After having graduated from the University of Southern California's summer camp, she took film classes and was then given a 3 month task to produce documentaries for PBS. She was then hired as a production assistant on documentaries on TV and Howie Mandel's talk-show. Her career progressed t

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent the majority of her childhood living in Chicago. Amy lived with her family in Chicago, when she was in junior high school. Parents, Bob, and Barb taught at the American School in the Middle East. Amy is the youngest of three siblings: sisters Betsy and Lori and Joe, the brother. Joe. Amy has travelled all over Europe with her family and independently. Both of them were teachers and were able to travel and camp together every summer due to this. They have camped in every state, except Alaska. Amy also went to Rwanda after the 1994 war to assist in relief efforts. Amy demonstrated artistic talent early by participating in school productions and taking part in writing competitions. In high school she was a dazzling athlete who was a part of the first ever 3200 meter relay in Illinois girls track. After an injury, she returned to college and played many parts on the stage, beginning with Lanford Wilson’s “Fifth of July” and then dir

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser. As a child she was an obsessed performer and would re-enact commercials from the television to entertain of her family. But, she decided to concentrate on dance. She continued her training with a number of well-respected dancers after she had spent 9 years studying classical ballet at Spain's National Conservatory. Her true calling was discovered at age 15, when she beat more than 300 girls at an audition for an agency that represented talent. She was then offered roles on Spanish television and music videos. This brought her many performances, which opened the way to a future on the world of big screens. Cruz made her film debut in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). She then briefly appeared in Framed (1992) in a Timothy Dalton thriller. The third film she starred in was an Oscar-winning film, Belle Epoque (1992), where she was one of the four sisters fighti

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is a director as well as an actor and musician who has directed numerous episodes of TV such as The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012) as well as other. She was also co-producer and Co-EP on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently attached to two pilots that are in the process of development. Milena was selected as one of eight directors in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. The short film she made and the TV series proof-of-concept , Unspeakable featuring Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober, featured its World Premiere at SXSW and won Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. The film, Temporary, she produced (2017) was shown throughout the nation. The film won 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 Internationa

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 and raised in New Jersey. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. Since then, she's been seen in such films as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow" which starred Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me & You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th Wolf" featuring an ensemble cast, which included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. Perabo was in the film alongside Bruce Willis (with Joseph Gordon Levitt), Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian John's sci-fi action flick "Looper". Perabo was Annie Walker on USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs" for five seasons. She was a part of ABC's legal drama "Notorious" in 20

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zuer, an Israeli actress, has received praise for her performances. She was born in Tel Aviv and was first discovered by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first role in English as Eric Bana's wife in Munich (2005). Zurer has appeared in several Studio films since her arrival in America, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point with William Hurt and Dennis Quaid, Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts 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 is an ensemble of Lawrence Kasdan that features Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Warner Bros. Man Of Steel together with Russell Crow. The actress filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert alongside Ewan McGregor and is waiting for the release date of the film The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya, who is also starring Clive Owen. She recently received the Gold Nymph Awar

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh is from Scotland. She was raised in Portugal, Colombia and then returned to Scotland. That's where she began performing on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 16, she moved to London and was soon involved in filmmaking in the indie genre (her first professional gig was as an actor in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre and acting as both an actress as well as a director. The move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought to the stage more shows as well as a production of "The Woolgatherer" that she directed Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) and David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to high praise. Her first US film role was "Stacy" an empathetic and reborn Christian and born again Christian, in Headspace (2005). It was as the wild "Thumper Wint" in the comedy, Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker and Winona Ryder) written from Heathers (1988) writer Daniel Waters, that the r

Paget Valerie Brewster

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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 of NBC sitcom Friends as well as being a voice actress and singer. Her first big role was Emily Prentiss, a Supervisory Special Agent on Criminal Minds. From 2006 until 2012, she was a guest on Criminal Minds regularly. She has returned with guest appearances ever since and is currently appearing on Criminal Minds frequently in the year 2016. Other roles she's played 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 playing Donald Duck's twin sister, Della as well as in DuckTales 2017. It was the first appearance on screen in animated form by the character. Brewster was born on March 10, 1969, in Concord, Massachusetts. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew) worked in government. Her father Galen Brewster worked as school a

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 appears as 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 two parents: a Korean mother and a French-Russian father. Her father was a consul of Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Her parents picked the name "Pom" due to the fact that it's identical in pronunciation to Korean words for both "spring" and "tiger". Klementieff lived in Canada for a time of one year, before her family travelled extensively because of her father's work. Prior to making the move to France, they lived in Japan as well as on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff's father died of cancer when she was 5, and her mother had s