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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. At the age of eight young, she started dancing lessons. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the top cheerleader as well as the class president. Her high school graduation was in 1980. After graduation she enrolled in college at Cal State Northridge. There she was a radio and television major. 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 Lakers enlisted The Jacksons to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, the first in a long list of videos and movies she choreographed. After the release of her debut CD "Forever Your Girl" she began to sing and became a popular performer and dancer. The stint she held as an American Idol judge (2002) has helped her become a popular performer/dancer. Her father, Harry Abdul, is Sephardic Jewish from Syria. Her mother, who

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is known for her portrayals in characters in contemporary and period screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) she was an Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. Her birthplace was Ithaca, New York and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. She attended drama school, and then was accepted into Long Wharf Theatre Company (East Coast). Her film debut came 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 character. McDonnell has starred in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) alongside such experienced actors as Robert Redford as well as Sidney Poitier. She also played in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996), with Will Smith. Margin Call (2011) that was a du

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris is an American journalist who was previously the TV correspondent for ABC News. She is famous for her time as co-anchor of Good Morning America Weekend from 2014 to 2018 as well as in her role as co-host on The View from 2015 to 2018. Before that she was co-anchor of America This Morning (World News Now) as well as 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 limited opportunities on television, she landed the position of a sales representative for radio. She was recruited as a WKEF/WRGT production assistant. She later was promoted to anchor and reporter. She was the anchor for weekends for WCPO TV in Cincinnati and the anchor for weekdays at WCPO TV in Cincinnati from 2002 to 2005. She was a sports reporter for the NBC's Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV between November 2005 and December 2011, after her contract had expi

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She started her career as a TV and film producer, including "The New Card Sharks", (1978) and "Card Sharks" (1986). She produced projects like Double Dare (1976), and has appeared on many TV shows, including E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Perhaps her most famous TV role was as "Christine Sullivan" on Night Court (1984). She was featured in 156 episodes of this comedy from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She is a poet and noted nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14, 1918-April 7, 2015). She had two daughters with her second husband Michael A. Ross: Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1987) and Daisy Ross (born March 30 90, 1990). Her birthplace was Palo alto, California and grew up near Walnut Creek, California. As cheerleader, she attended Las Lomas High school located in Walnut Creek. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon awarded her a Bachelor of Arts d

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was conceived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on the 27th of August, 1976. Angie Chalke, and Doug Chalke are her parents. Sarah is the middle child, having one older sister Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career with City Boy (1992), an original television film. In 1993, after her first film, she was a candidate for the part of "Becky" in the TV show Roseanne (1988). The show was looking for an actor to replace Alicia Goranson quit the show to go to college. Sarah graduated from high school in the year 1995, when she was filming the season 1994-1995 of Roseanne (1988). In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). She was in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand against Fear(1996). In both films she played the character of Krista Wilson as the cheerleader. In 1998, one year following the time that Roseanne (1988) was finished, Sarah was asked to play a character in a TV show called Nothing Too Good for

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumni. She is also an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She has twice won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also received the Best Comedic Play and 2006 Best Sketch Troupe awards. She's played various roles in "Scare Tactics" as well as the Canadian TV series, "Almost Heroes." She was a regular in "The Ron James Show" and appeared in guest roles in "Call Me Fitz,""Cracked,"" “Bomb Girls” as well as "Lost Girl." Her credits in television and film also include "Video on Trial," Hotbox and the Academy Award-nominated "Lars and the Real Girl." She's the voice of Sam in "The Dating Guy,"" an animated Canadian series. In 2019-2020, her net worth has grown dramatically. What is Lauren Ash's net worth when she is 37? Lauren Ash is a suc

Paula Patton

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Paula Patton was the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her mother is caucasian is of German, English, and Dutch her ancestry. When she was a young girl in the area, her family lived in front of the 20th Century Fox lot. She was an avid film enthusiast since her early years. Her mother who was a school teacher and her father, a lawyer, were both avid film fans. Paula said that she attempted to escape as an infant through "pretending" to pretend to be someone else than. So it's not a surprise that she was a part of Hamilton Magnet Arts High School plays. Her favorite character was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". In the end, she chose to take a course in film at the University of Southern California in the summer program and received a three-month contract to create documentaries for PBS. Then, she was hired as a production assistant on documentaries on TV and Howie Mandel's talk show. Then she began pr

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 lived in Glen Ellyn Illinois, right up to the time she graduated from junior college. Her family also lived in the Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at American School. Amy is the mother of two sisters: Betsy and Lori, and a brother Joe. Amy has travelled all over Europe by herself as well as together with her family. Because her parents worked as teachers who taught, they could travel together every summer, and camping across the United States. They've camped in every US state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy traveled to Rwanda to assist in efforts to help after the war of 1994. Amy showed her artistic talents early through acting in school productions, and winning writing contests. High school was where she was a star athlete and was the first to participate in the ever 3200 meter relay race for girls in the Illinois track. After sustaining an injury, she

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. As a child, she was an obsessive performer. She would even re-enact commercials on TV for the entertainment of her family. However, she decided to devote her energies to dancing. After pursuing classical ballet for 9 years in Spain's National Conservatory, she continued her studies under a group of prominent dancers. At the age of 15 she followed her purpose when she beat over 300 girls at an audition at a talent agency. The agency offered her roles in Spanish music videos and TV. The contract led to many more roles, and opened the doors to a successful career on the world of big screens. Cruz was first seen in a movie in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) Then she appeared briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). Her final film was an Oscar-winning film, Belle Epoque (1992), where she played one of the four sisters fighting for the

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is a director, actor, and musician who has directed a number of episodes of TV which include The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012) among others. Milena was the Co-EP/Producing director on Dick Wolf's CBS show FBI (2018) and is currently in the process of completing two pilots. Milena was one of eight women who were selected by AFI's highly regarded 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 The film won the Best Episodic Award at the Seattle International Film Festival as and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. The film, Temporary, she produced (2017) was screened across the country. She won Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival. Best Dark Comedy Award at Atlanta ShortsFest. and the Director's Choice Award from Sedona International

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo has been nominated for an Golden Globe as a stage, TV and film actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in New Jersey. In 2000, she was a part in the role of a breakout character in Coyote Ugly. She has been featured in a number of films since that time, including Christopher's "The Prestige", with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, and "Because I Said So" which starred 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 featuring a cast which also comprised Dennis Hopper and James Marsden. She starred alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action film "Looper.". Perabo was Annie Walker's TV character in five seasons of

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zuer, an Israeli actress, has been praised for her performance. Her birthplace is 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 spouse in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Zurer has been in a variety of Studio films since her arrival in the United States, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point which starred William Hurt and Dennis Quaid, Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected alongside 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 in the role of Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor was the director of Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert, and she waited for the release of The Last Knights, a film directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, sta

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was a child in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her native Scotland in Scotland, where she was born. It was here that she first began to perform on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. After 16 she relocated to London where she quickly became involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. (Her first pay-per-view on The Acid House was as a stoner in the film Irvine Welsh (1998)). She has also been involved in theatre, as an actor and a director. The move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought an increase in theatre productions, including a production of "The Woolgatherer" where she was the director Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) as well as David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to high praise. Then she landed her first US film role, playing the manipulative woman who is a new Christian, "Stacy", in Headspace (2005). The role was later recast as "Thumper Wint", a wild, born-again Christian, in Sex and D

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie is an American actor, singer, and voice actor. First recognized for her role as Kathy in the fourth season's NBC sitcom Friends, she was also vocalist and voice actress. Her first recognition was for her role as Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime show Criminal Minds. She was a regular guest on that show regularly from 2006 until 2012. She has returned regularly since then , with guest appearances. She has also played Mr. Mumbles and Elise on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in Community's final season, Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at law, Sara Kingsley in Fox's Grandfathered and Donald Duck’s twin sister Della on DuckTales 2017 was the first time that the character appeared in animation the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10 of 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew), was a government official. Galen Brewster was her father, and was an administrator at the school. Brewster was born in Massachusetts and then

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 such as Loup 2009, Sleepless Night 2011 and Hacker's Game 2015. She plays the Mantis character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (1999). Pom Klementieff was the child of a Korean mother, as well as an American-Russian father. Her father was a consul of Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff, a painter, was her grandfather. Because it sounds similar to the Korean words for "spring" or "tiger", her parents gave their daughter the name Pom. Klementieff lived in Canada for one year. Her family had travelled extensively as a result of her father's work. They resided in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Her father, who passed away from cancer at age 5, was her mother. Also, she was suffering from schizophrenia , a