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Genesis Rodriguez

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Genesis Rodriguez was born in Miami. She is the daughter of Jose Luis 'El Puma' Rodriguez, the famous Venezuelan actor and singer as well as Carolina Perez, a Cuban model. She has two half-sisters. She went to the Carrolton School of the Sacred Heart. Rodriguez knew as a child that she wanted to become an actor. She attended summer courses at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and continued her training in acting. She was soon successful and was offered roles in Spanish languages, such as Prisionera (2004) and Dame Chocolate (2007). She also appeared on of the popular TV show "Entourage" (2004). Man on a Ledge (2012), and What to Expect when You're Expecting (2012) are some films she has worked on. Jose Luis El Puma’ Rodriguez's daughter. Half-sister to Liliana Rodriguez, Lilibeth Morillo. She said on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, 9 January 2013, episode that she was named Genesis in honor of the British rock band Genesis. She is of Venezue...

Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. She started dancing when she was eight. She was a student at Van Nuys High School, where she was senior class president and head cheerleader. After graduating in 1980, she began college at Cal State-Northridge, studying 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 movie "Torture" that was the first in a lengthy series of movies and video she choreographed. She started singing with her first CD, "Forever Your Girl" with a mediocre sales performance until her hit single "Straight Up" exploded onto the charts in December of 1988. she has been a renowned dancer ever since, aided by her stint as an adjudicator on the popular show American Idol (2002). Her father (Harry Abdul) is Sephardic Jewish and hails from Syria. H...

Mary McDonnell

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Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is most well famous for her performance on screen in historical and modern roles. She has also had a long line of roles on stage as well as screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy) who was an Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was born in Ithaca and then graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. Later, she attended the drama school and was accepted into the highly regarded 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 born to the Sioux Indians. The first time she received an Academy Award nomination was for this role. McDonnell's film credits include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999) in which she starred alongside veteran actors like Robert Red...

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris, an American journalist, was previously a television correspondent at ABC News. Her roles as co-anchor for Good Morning America Weekend (2014-2018) and co-host on The View (2015-2018) are well-known. The show was co-hosted by her prior co-anchors 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. The position she held was in sales for radio, because television was not a viable option. She was hired as a WRGT/WKEF production assistant. She later was promoted to anchor and reporter. She was the anchor for weekends at WCPO TV in Cincinnati and the weekday anchor at WCPO TV in Cincinnati from 2002 until 2005. She became a reporter for sports at the NBC's Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV from November 2005 to December 2011, after her contract expired. She was hired by ABC News' news division in December 2011. She joined ABC News for the...

Markie Post

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Markie Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California and began her career in films and TV shows, like Card Sharks (1978) and "The New Card Sharks" (1986) and later on produce such projects as Double Dare (1976) and she has appeared on TV shows like 1st to Die (2003), E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001) and Dyna Girl (2001). Her most memorable TV part was "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). She was featured in an entire 156 episodes of this show from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet and a well-known nuclear physicist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 until April 7 in 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, California. The school she attended was Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California; she was an athlete. Lewis & Clar...

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was born on 27 August 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her parents are Angie Chalke and Doug Chalke. She is the middle child. She has an older sister, Natasha Chalke and one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's acting debut came in City Boy (1992), an adaptation of a film for television. In 1993, shortly after her first film, she was a candidate for the role of "Becky" on the TV show Roseanne (1988). The show was searching for a replacement after Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995, when she was filming the season 1994-1995 of Roseanne (1988). Also, in 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film Ernest Goes to School (1994) together with Jim Varney. In 1996, Sarah played in two movies: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996) in which she played a cheerleader who was named Krista Wilson. Sarah was asked to be a part on a television show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998) in the year following Rosea...

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 and is one half of sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's twice a winner of the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also took home the 2008 Best Comedic Play and the 2006 Best Sketch Troupe awards. She has played a variety of characters in "Scare Tactics," as well as "Almost Heroes," an Canadian TV series. She had a recurring role in "The Ron James Show" and made guest appearances in "Lost Girl,"" "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." Her credits in television and film also include "Video on Trial," Hotbox and the Academy Award-nominated "Lars and the Real Girl." She also plays Sam in animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has been increasing dramatically in the period 2019-2020. How much is Lauren Ash's net wor...

Paula Patton

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Paula Patton was born in Los Angeles, California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American . her mother who is caucasian, has 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 fan of movies in her early days. Her mother, who appreciated good films was a teacher, as was her father, an attorney. Paula stated that she had tried to get away as an infant by "pretending" to become someone else. So it's not a surprise that she appeared in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School performances. Her favorite character was one played by Abigail in "The Crucible". However, she went on to take a course in film at the University of Southern California in the summer program and received a three-month contract to create documentary films for PBS. The result was that she began working as a production assistant on documentary films on TV, as well as on Howie Mandel...

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was born in Glen Ellyn in Illinois and spent her childhood in Chicago. Amy was a resident of Glen Ellyn the city of Illinois, up until she entered junior college. Her family also resided in the Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at the American School. Amy is the sister Betsy, Lori, and brother Joe. Amy has traveled throughout Europe both with her family as well as alone. Because her parents worked as teachers who taught, they could spend the entire summer traveling and camping across the United States. They've stayed in every state, with the exception of Alaska. Amy was in Rwanda for aid with efforts to aid in the aftermath of the 1994 war. Amy was a gifted actor in school plays and also won writing contests. In high school she was a promising athlete who placed in the first ever 3200-meter relay in the Illinois girls track. After sustaining an injury, she went back to university and performed in a variety of roles on the stage, starting with Lanford...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser. She was an obsessive performer when she was a kid and often reenacted TV commercials for family amusement. But she chose to focus her attention on dancing. After studying ballet for nine years at Spain's National Conservatory, she continued her training under a series of prominent dancers. She realized her passion at the age of 15 when she defeated more than 300 girls in an audition for an agency for talents. She was offered roles on Spanish television and music videos. This contract led to many more roles, opening the doors to a successful career on the world of big screens. Cruz made her movie debut in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) She then made a brief appearance in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). Her final film, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning film where she played one of the four sisters trying to win the affection of a handsome deser...

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is an actor, director, and musician. She has directed a number of episodes of TV such as Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). Additionally, she was co-producer and Co-EP on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently a part of two pilots currently in production. Milena was among eight women selected for AFI’s famous Directing Workshop for Women. She was also a participant 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 won the best episodic award at the Seattle International Film Festival as in addition to Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. The film, Temporary, she produced (2017) was shown throughout the country. She was awarded the 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. As an actor Milena has be...

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated film, stage and television actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in New Jersey. In 2000 she was cast as a breakout actor in Coyote Ugly. She has appeared in numerous films since when, including Christopher's "The Prestige" in which she starred with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, and "Because I Said So" featuring Diane Keaton, and "First Snow" with Guy Pearce. "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Imagine Me and You" films with Steve Martin, "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen" films, "10th & Wolf" crime drama with a cast that also included Dennis Hopper and James Marsden. Perabo was in the film alongside Bruce Willis (with Joseph Gordon Levitt), Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian John's sci-fi action film "Looper". Perabo played Annie Walker on USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs" f...

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 caught the attention of Hollywood when she was enlisted by Steven Spielberg in her first character in English, Eric Bana's character's wife the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Zurer has appeared in many Studio films since arriving in America, such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point which starred William Hurt and Dennis Quaid, Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts 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, a Lawrence Kasdan ensemble cast featuring Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel in the role of Russell Crow. Ewan McGregor was her filming partner in Rodrigo Garces' Last Days in Desert. She also waited for The Last Knights to be released by Kazuaki Kriya Kazuaki Kriya, the Japanese director. Recently, she won t...

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia However, she later returned to Scotland where she began performing on stage at The Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 16, she moved to London and soon began to get involved in filmmaking in the indie genre (her first job paid for was as stoner in Irvine Wales's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre in both roles as an actress and director. Moving 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 amazing reviews. She then landed her first US film role in the movie as the manipulative and a born-again Christian, "Stacy", in Headspace (2005). It was as the wild "Thumper Wint" in the comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker and Winona Ryder) written by Heathers (1988) writer Daniel Waters, th...

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie Brewster is an American voice actress, actor as well as a singer. Most famously, she was known for her character as Kathy in the fourth season of NBC sitcom Friends as well as being vocalist and voice actor. Her breakthrough role came as Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds where she was on the show regularly from 2006 until 2012 and has since returned to for guest appearances , before returning regularly in the year 2016. Other roles she's performed 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, as well as voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della, in DuckTales 2017. The first time that she appeared in animation as the character. Brewster was born on the 10th of March 1969, in Concord, Massachusetts. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew) was an official in the government, while her father, Galen Brewster, worked as ...

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff is an actress from France, French actress, was born 3 May 1986. She studied at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has appeared in films such as 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 (1999). Pom Klementieff was the daughter of an Korean mother and an American-Russian father. Her father was consul in Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff was her grandfather. Her parents picked the name "Pom" because it's like the Korean words for "spring" and "tiger". Klementieff was a citizen of Canada for a single year. Her family had travelled extensively because of her father's work. They resided in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Klementieff lost her father to cancer at the age of five. Her mother was also diagnosed with schi...