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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. She began dancing at the age of eight. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the head cheerleader and the senior class president. Her high school graduation was in the year 1980. Following graduation she started college at Cal State Northridge. There she majored in radio and television. 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" video, which was the first of many films and videos she would choreograph. Her first album "Forever Your Girl", her singing career took off. However, the song "Straight Up" was a major hit and she's been a successful dancer/singer ever after. It was made easier by her stint on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father (Harry Abdul), is Sephardic Jewish and...

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is famous for her portrayals of characters from the past and present screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell is a Pennsylvania-born actress. She was the daughter of Eileen (Mundy) who was an Irish-American computer expert, and John McDonnell. Growing up in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. She went on to drama school, and was later accepted into Long Wharf Theatre Company (East Coast). She was just 22 when she was offered her breakthrough film role in Dances with Wolves (1990), where she played "Stands with a Fist", a Sioux Indian woman who is white. For the role, she earned her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell has appeared in the Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991), and Mumford (1999) in the role of experienced actors as Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier. She also appeared in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996), with Will Smi...

Paula Faris, an American journalist, worked previously as the TV reporter at ABC News. Her time as co-anchor on Good Morning America Weekend (2014-2018) and co-host on The View (2015-2018) are famous. She was also co-anchor on America This Morning and World News Now. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. She held a job in radio sales because of the limited opportunities for television. She was recruited to work as a WKEF/WRGT production assistant. Later, she was promoted to anchor and reporter. From 2002 to 2005 she was the sports anchor for weekends and sports anchor on weekdays at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. When her contract ended she took on the role of anchor and sports reporter for the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 to December 2011. She was appointed by ABC News the news division in December 2011. The first time she appeared on ABC News was on the 2nd of J...

Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She started her professional career as a film and TV producer, with projects like "The New Card Sharks", (1978) and "Card Sharks" (1986). Post produced projects such as Double Dare (1976), and was a guest on numerous TV shows like 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 featured in the show's 156 episodes from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She is a noted poet and nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 - April 7, 2015.). Two daughters, Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1987) and Daisy Ross (born on March 30, 1990) was her second wedding to Michael A. Ross. She was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek in California. As an athlete, she was a part of Las Lomas High School located in Walnut Creek. She received her Bachelor of Arts at L...

Sarah Chalke was born on 27 August 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Angie Chalke, and Doug Chalke are her parents. Sarah is the middle child, with one older sister, Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career with City Boy (1992), the first television-produced film made by TV. After her first movie she auditioned for the role of Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. The show was in search of an actor to replace Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah graduated high school in 1995 and began filming the 1994-95 Roseanne (1988) season. 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) as well as Stand Against Fear (1996), where she played a cheerleadernamed "Krista Wilson". Sarah was asked to perform in a 1998 TV show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. This was one year following Roseanne (1988). Based on the show Nothing Too Good F...

Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumni. 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 the Best Comedic Show in 2008 and Best Sketch Troupe in 2006. She has appeared in a variety of roles in the shows "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes" as well. 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." She was also featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Academy Award-nominated movie "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voices Sam in the animated Canadian show "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has increased substantially between the years 2019 and 2020. What is Lauren Ash's net worth at 37? Lauren Ash's primary source of inc...

Paula Patton was born in Los Angeles, California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her mother, who is caucasian, has German, English, and Dutch ancestry. Her family lived just next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she was growing-up, and she was a big film buff since her early days. Her mother, a schoolteacher, and her dad who was a lawyer were both avid fans of films. Paula claims that when she was an teen she would get away from the world by "pretending to play a different character" therefore it wasn't the case that she appeared in plays for high school at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite character was that of "Abigail" in "The Crucible". She continued her studies at the University of Southern California, where she completed a summer course in film. At the time, she was granted a three-month assignment to make documentaries for PBS. This led to her working as a production assistant in documentary...

Amy Carlson was born in Glen Ellyn in Illinois and was raised in Chicago. Amy lived in Glen Ellyn the city of Illinois, up until she entered junior college. The family also resided in 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 brother Joe. Amy has traveled all over Europe both on her own as well as with her family. Both of her parents worked as teachers, so they had the opportunity to spend their summers together camping and traveling all across the United States. They've camped in every American state except Alaska. Amy went to Rwanda to assist in relief efforts following the 1994 war. Amy was an accomplished actor in school productions and was a winner of writing contests. In high school, she was a promising athlete who placed in the very first 3200 meter relay in Illinois girls track. After a college injury, she returned to the stage with a variety of roles on stage starting with...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser. She was a fervent performer in her youth and would reenact TV commercials to keep the family entertained. But she chose to concentrate her energy on dance. After nine years of ballet training at Spain's National Conservatory she was able to continue her studies under the direction by a range of well-known dancers. When she was 15 she realized her real call when she topped more than 300 other girls in a talent agency audition. She was offered roles in Spanish television and music videos. The contract led to a number of more roles, and opened the doors to a successful career in the big screen. Cruz made her debut in a film in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) and then briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). Her final film, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning movie in which she played one the four sisters that were fighting to win the heart of a h...

Milena Govich is an actor director, musician, and actor. She has helmed numerous episodes of TV, including Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). Milena was the Co-EP/Producing Director of Dick Wolf’s CBS show FBI (2018) and is currently working on two pilots. Milena was among eight filmmakers chosen for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, in addition to the only Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. Unspeakable the short film she created, as well as a television show proof of concept, was shown at SXSW. It also took home Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. The film, Temporary, she produced (2017) was screened throughout the United States. She was awarded the Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival. Best Dark Comedy Award at Atlanta ShortsFest. The Director's Choice Award from Sedona International Film Festival. As an actor, Milena has appeared in close to 100...

Piper Perabo has been nominated for an Golden Globe as a stage or TV actor. Her birthplace was in Dallas and raised in New Jersey. The film featured her in Coyote Ugly's breakout role in 2000. She appeared in "The Prestige" by Christopher Nolan with Hugh Jackman & Christian Bale, "Because I Said So", and "Because I Said So" together with "Because I Said So", with Diane Keaton and Guy Pearce. In addition to "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. In Rian Johnson's sci-fi action movie "Looper," she starred with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. On television, Perabo appeared as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs." After that, she was a co-star on ABC's 2016 legal drama "Notorious. It is also possible to watch "Tu...

Ayelet Zuer, an Israeli actress, has received praise for her performance. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, she first caught the attention of Hollywood when she was given the role of Eric Bana's spouse in the Oscar(r), nominated movie Munich (2005). After arriving in the United States, Zurer has appeared in Studio films, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt, Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Pieces opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected with Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons opposite Tom Hanks. Darling Companion is a Lawrence Kasdan ensemble cast that includes Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Warner Bros. Man Of Steel together with Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor was the director of Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert. She waited for the release of The Last Knights, a film written by Kazuaki Kiriya, starring Clive Owen. She recently received the Gold Nymph Award for Outstanding actress in a Dra...

Pollyanna McIntosh was a child in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her home in Scotland in Scotland, where she was born. It was here that she first began to perform on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. When she was 16, she relocated to London where she began to get involved in independent filmmaking. (Her first professional gig in The Acid House was as an actor with Irvine Welsh (1998)). She has also been involved in theatre, both as an actor and director. A move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought to the stage more shows, including a production of "The Woolgatherer", in which she directed 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 excellent reviews. In Headspace (2005) the actress landed her first US movie part as "Stacy", a manipulative and a born-again Christian. Her first movie role was in the film Headspace (2005) as the manipulative, born-again Christian "Thumper Wint...

Paget Valerie Broughster is an American actor, singer, and voice actress. She was first recognized for her role as Kathy in the fourth season of NBC sitcom Friends, she was also vocalist and voice actress. Her breakout role was as the Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds where she appeared regularly from 2006 until 2012. She has since returned to as a guest on the show before returning regularly in the year 2016. She 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, marking the first animated appearance for the character. Brewster was conceived in Concord, Massachusetts on March 10 of 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew), worked as an official of the government, and her father, Galen Brewster, worked as an administrator at a school. Brewster was raised in M...

Pom Klementieff was born on May 3, 1986. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris. Her role includes Loup (2009) as well as Sleepless Night (2011). She is the voice of 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 born in Quebec City, Canada, to her Korean mother and French-Russian father, who worked there as a consul with the French government. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Pom was her nickname because it sounds like the Korean words "spring" and 'tiger" in Korean. Klementieff stayed in Canada for a time of one year, before her family went on a long trip due to her father's job. Before moving to France the family resided in Japan and also on the Ivory Coast. Klementieff's father died of cancer at the age of 5 and her mother was suffering from schizophrenia and was incapable of caring for children, so K...