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Paula Abdul grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. At age eight, she began learning dance. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the cheerleader of the year and class president for senior year. She graduated in 1980 and began college at Cal State Northridge to major 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" the first of a series of films and videos she would choreograph. She branched out into singing with her first CD, "Forever Your Girl" which was not a huge success until the hit song "Straight Up" exploded onto the charts in December 1988 . Since then, she's been a household artist and singer ever since. This was made even more popular by her time as an adjudicator on the popular series American ...

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is popular for her portrayals as characters from the past and present screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) is an Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was raised in Ithaca and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. Then, she went to drama school and was admitted to the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. Two decades later she scored her first major film role in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) where she played "Stands with a Fist", a white woman raised by the Sioux Indians. McDonnell received her first Academy Award nomination for the part. McDonnell's film credits also include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999), opposite veteran actors like Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996) (starring Will Smith); the...

Paula Faris, an American journalist, previously worked as an anchor for television at ABC News. Her most well-known work is her tenure 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. Prior to that, she was co-anchoring World News Now and 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 TV the company employed her in sales for radio. She was eventually able to find work for a year as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT and later occasionally report and anchor. She was the anchor for weekends at WCPO TV in Cincinnati and the weekday anchor for WCPO TV in Cincinnati from 2002 until 2005. After her contract was up in 2005, she was a sports reporter and anchor at the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 to December 2011. In December 2011 she wa...

Markie Post was born in Walnut Creek, California. Her first professional work was in film and television productions such as "Card Sharks" (1978) or "The New Card Sharks” (1986). Later, she produced such projects as Double Dare (1976). She also has appeared on television shows like 1st to Die (2003) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001), and Dyna Girl (2001). Her most famous TV performance was as "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). From 1984 until 1992 she was in 156 episodes. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She was a noted poet and nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 - April 7, 2015). There were two daughters she had with her husband, Michael A. Ross: Katie Ross (born June 26 1997) and Daisy Ross (born March 30 and died on March 30, 1990). Her birthplace was Palo Alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek in California. Attended Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California; she was an athlet...

Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. She is the middle child, having one older sister Natasha Chalke, and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career in the film City Boy (1992), produced for television. After her first film she auditioned for the role of Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. Following the time that Alicia Goranson left the show to go to college The show was looking for someone to replace her. Sarah graduated from highschool in 1995 and was involved in the production of Roseanne (1988) between 1994 and 1995. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). Then, in 1996, she was in two films, including Robin of Locksley (1996) as well as Stand Against Fear (1996) where she played a cheerleadernamed "Krista Wilson". Sarah was also invited to star in a TV show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998), one year after Roseanne (1988). B...

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 been a Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for the title of Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she took home the Best Comedic play award and in 2006, she received the Best Sketch Troupe Award. She's been in various roles on "Scare Tactics" and the Canadian television series, "Almost Heroes." She was a regular on "The Ron James Show" and played guest roles in "Call Me Fitz,""Cracked,"" “Bomb Girls” as well as "Lost Girl." She also appeared in "Video on Trial,"" Hotbox, and the Oscar Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also plays the role of Sam in the animated Canadian show "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has grown dramatically in the period 2019-2020. What is Lauren Ash's net w...

Paula Patton was the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden), and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her mother is caucasian. She is of German, English, Dutch and English family ancestry. When she was a young girl, her family lived right next to the 20th Century Fox lot. She was a huge movie buff from the time she was a child. Her mom was a teacher , and her father worked as an attorney. Paula stated that she had tried to escape when she was a young girl through "pretending" to appear to be someone different from herself. Therefore, it's no surprise that she was a part of Hamilton Magnet Arts High School productions. Her favorite character was that of "Abigail" in "The Crucible". She continued her studies at the University of Southern California, where she completed a course in film. The program was a success, and she was awarded a three-month assignment to make documentaries for PBS. As a result, she was able to work as a production assistant in ...

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 is the daughter of Eduardo Cruz, a Madrid hairdresser, and Encarna Sanchez. She was an obsessive performer as a young girl and even reenacted commercials on TV to keep the family entertained. But she chose to concentrate on dance. She continued her dance training with a variety of highly-regarded dancers after she had spent the last nine years learning ballet in Spain's National Conservatory. She discovered her true passion at the age of 15, after she defeated over 300 other girls during an audition with a talent agency. The contract she signed secured her roles on Spanish television shows as well as music videos. The contract opened the doors to a promising career on the big screen. Cruz made her film debut in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) and then briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). The Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992) was her third film. In it she played one of four sisters who were seeking the affection of a handsome d...

Milena Govich is an actor, director, and musician. She has directed a number of episodes of TV, including Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). She also served as Co-EP/Producing Director for Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018), and is attached to direct two pilots in the process of development. Milena was one of eight women chosen by AFI for their famous Directing Workshop for Women. She also took part in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Her short film and TV series proof-of-concept , Unspeakable which starred Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober has featured its World premiere at SXSW and won Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017) has played across the United States and has won the Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest and the Director's Choice Award at Sedona International Film Festival. As an actor ...

Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated stage, film and TV actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in New Jersey. Coyote Ugly was her breakout role. Since then, she's been in films such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" featuring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow" with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and You" featuring Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime drama "10th Wolf" featuring an ensemble cast that included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci-fi action movie "Looper," she starred alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Perabo was Annie Walker on USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs" for five seasons. She also appeared in ABC's legal drama "Notorious" in 2016. You can also watch "Turn Up Charlie" on Netflix with IdrisElba....

Ayelet Zurer is among Israel's most highly regarded actresses. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, she was first noticed by Hollywood when she was offered the part of Eric Bana's spouse in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Since moving to the United States, Zurer has starred in Studio films such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring Dennis Quaid and William Hurt, 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 is opposite Tom Hanks. Darling companion, a Lawrence Kasdan cast with Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel which is starring Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. The actress filmed Rodrigo Garcia, Last days in the desert alongside Ewan McGregor while waiting for the release of her movie The Last Knights by the Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya. She also appeared in Clive Owen. For her role as Hostages the lead actress, she won t...

Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia However, she later returned to Scotland when she began her career on the stage at The Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 16, she moved to London where she became involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. (Her first paid gig in The Acid House was as a stoner with Irvine Welsh (1998)). Also, she's been involved in theatre as both an actor and director. Moving to Los Angeles in 2004 brought new theatre opportunities and productions, including "The Woolgatherer" and in which 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 excellent reviews. Her first US film role was "Stacy" as the manipulative, born again Christian, in Headspace (2005). It was in the role of wild "Thumper Wint" in the comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker and Winona Ryder), from Heathers (1988) writer Daniel Waters, that the critic...

Paget Valerie is an American actress, singer and voice actor. Most famously, she was known for her character 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 the year 2006 until 2012 she was on Criminal Minds frequently. She has been back to guest appearances since and is now returning to Criminal Minds regularly in 2016. Her other roles include voicing Elise as well as Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in the last season of Community as well as 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, marking the first appearance in animation of the character. Brewster was born on the 10th of March 1969, in Concord, Massachusetts. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew), was a government official. Galen Brewster ...

Pom Klementieff was born 3 May 1986. She was a student at the Cours Florent drama academy in Paris. Her role includes Loup (2009) and Sleepless Night (2011). 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 raised in Quebec City to a Korean father and a French-Russian wife. He worked as consul with the French government. Eugene Klementieff was her grandfather. Her parents picked the name "Pom" due to the fact that it's similar in pronunciation to Korean words for "spring" as well as "tiger". Klementieff resided in Canada for one year before her family went on a long trip due to her father's employment. They lived in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Her father, who passed away in the age of five from cancer was also her mother. She was also suffering with schizophrenia and didn'...