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by audiblesclerosis | created - 23 Dec 2017 | updated - 03 Feb 2019 | Public

1. Jennifer Love Hewitt

Actress | I Know What You Did Last Summer

Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Patricia Mae (Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. She has English, Italian, French, Scottish, and German ancestry. She got her first name from her older brother Todd Daniel Hewitt (b. November 8, ...

2. Nasim Pedrad

Actress | Despicable Me 2

Nasim Pedrad (born November 18, 1981) is an American actress and comedian best known for her five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live (1975) from 2009 to 2014. She has since gone on to co-star in sitcoms such as Mulaney (2014), Scream Queens (2015), People of Earth (2016), and New Girl ...

3. Sandra Bullock

Producer | The Proposal

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...

4. Emma Roberts

Actress | We're the Millers

Emma Roberts was born in Rhinebeck, New York. She was a baby when her parents separated, and she grew up living with her mother, Kelly Cunningham. She was educated at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, California.

Emma is the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts, and the niece of ...

5. Maria Thayer

Actress | State of Play

Thayer was born in Portland, Oregon, and spent her early life in the small town of Boring, east of Portland, where her parents owned a bee farm. During her childhood, the family relocated to Minnesota, where she attended Apple Valley High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota, and was a member of the ...

6. Gillian Jacobs

Actress | Community

Gillian Jacobs was born on October 19, 1982 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker and her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was an alumni relations officer at Carnegie Mellon University.

Gillian is an alumnus of Mt. Lebanon High School, ...

7. Elizabeth Banks

Actress | The Hunger Games

Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. Elizabeth describes ...

8. Mariana Paola Vicente

Actress | Ozark

Mariana Paola Vicente was born on January 8, 1989. She is an actress and producer, known for Ozark (2017), Lucifer (2016) and American Horror Story (2011). She has been married to Enrique Hernandez since December 10, 2018. They have one child.

9. Linda Bella

Actress | Dracula: Reborn

Linda Bella was born on July 6, 1992 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She is an actress and producer, known for Dracula: Reborn (2012), First Dog (2010) and The Paper Boat (2015).

10. Chloe Rose

Actress | Teenagers

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Chloe is best known for her breakout role as Katie Matlin on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001). Following Degrassi, Chloe received acclaim for her performance in Teenagers (2014). She has also starred in feature films, including The Lesser Blessed (2012), ...

11. Rachel Wilson

Actress | In the Tall Grass

Rachel Wilson was born on May 12, 1977 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for In the Tall Grass (2019), The Glass House (2001) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).

12. Alyssa Milano

Actress | Charmed

Alyssa Milano comes from an Italian-American family; her mother Lin Milano is a fashion designer and father Thomas Milano is a film music editor. Alyssa was born in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn and grew up in a modest house on Staten Island. One day her babysitter, who was an aspiring ...

13. Anna Faris

Actress | The House Bunny

Anna Kay Faris was born on November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Karen (Bathurst), a special education teacher, and Jack Faris, a sociologist. She was raised in Edmonds, Washington. Her ancestry includes English, German, Scottish, French, Dutch, Irish, and Welsh. Anna started acting very ...

14. Danielle Harris

Actress | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Danielle Harris is an American actress and film director from Plainview, New York. She is regarded as a scream queen for her many roles in horror films. Her better known roles include protagonist Jamie Lloyd in "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988) and "Halloween 5: The Revenge of ...

15. Dani Kind

Actress | Workin' Moms

Dani Kind was born in Toronto, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Workin' Moms (2017) and Wynonna Earp (2016).

16. Kim Matula

Actress | Fighting with My Family

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Kim Matula has been acting since she was 12 years old and when she turned 15, she sent out her headshots and managed to land an agent. After graduating from high school, Matula studied film at the University of Texas at Arlington, but dropped out because her acting career...

17. Olivia Macklin

Actress | Psychopomp

Olivia Macklin was born on March 16, 1994 in Glencoe Village, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Psychopomp, The Young Pope (2016) and Christmas Always Finds Its Way (2022).

18. Constance Zimmer

Actress | UnREAL

Constance Zimmer is well-known for playing a number of standout characters in notable projects. Starting in 2005, and for six seasons, she played the role of "Dana Gordon' on HBO's critically acclaimed series "Entourage," she reprises that role when Warner Bros. released the "Entourage" film on the...

19. Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg

Actress | Dirty Love

One of four sisters, Jenny McCarthy was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, the second oldest daughter of Linda (Loheit), a courtroom custodian, and Daniel McCarthy, a steel mill foreman. She has Irish (father) and Croatian, German, and Polish (mother) ancestry. She was educated at ...

20. Tina Huang

Actress | Rizzoli & Isles

Tina Huang was born in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Rizzoli & Isles (2010), The Night Shift (2014) and Shameless (2011).

21. Alyssa Lobit

Actress | The Things We Carry

Alyssa Lobit is an Academy Nicholl Fellowships Quarterfinalist with the award-winning indie drama The Things We Carry, placing in the top 5% of 5,050 entries in this prestigious screenplay competition. The Things We Carry marked her debut as both writer and lead actress in a feature and went on to ...

22. Jessica Chastain

Actress | Zero Dark Thirty

Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...

23. Jessica Biel

Actress | The Illusionist

Jessica Biel, has become one of Hollywood's most sought-out actresses. She was born in Ely, Minnesota, to Kimberly (Conroe) and Jonathan Edward Biel, who is a business consultant and GM worker. Biel was raised in Boulder, Colorado. She is of Hungarian Jewish, Danish, English, and German descent.

As ...

24. Julie Bowen

Actress | Happy Gilmore

Julie Bowen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the middle daughter of Suzanne and John Luetkemeyer Jr., a real estate developer. Her early education was at Calvert School in Baltimore, and Garrison Forest School, Maryland. She moved on to St. George's School, Rhode Island and then attended ...

25. Lucy Hale

Actress | Truth or Dare

Lucy Hale has captured the attention of millions through her dynamic on-screen performances in some of the most buzzed about projects in film and television. Hale recently starred as the lead, DC Lake Edmunds, in the new series, Ragdoll, which is streaming on AMC and Alibi. Last year, she finished ...

26. Hayden Panettiere

Actress | Heroes

Hayden Lesley Panettiere was born on August 21, 1989 in Palisades, New York, to actress Lesley Vogel and fire department captain Skip Panettiere. Her younger brother was actor Jansen Panettiere (1994-2023). Her parents are both of half Italian descent, along with German and English. Her mother got ...

27. Monica Graves

Actress | Portlandia

Monica Graves is known for Portlandia (2011), III (2019) and Grimm (2011).

28. Anne Sorce

Actress | Wild

Anne Sorce is known for Wild (2014), Deep Dark (2015) and The Kid (2014).

29. Jennette McCurdy

Actress | iCarly

Jennette McCurdy is a writer/director who specializes in character-driven pieces that explore serious subject matter in a funny, offbeat way. Her favorite themes to explore are family dysfunction, childhood, and disillusionment. She has directed several short films which has been recognized by ...

30. Samantha Hanratty

Actress | Yellowjackets

Sammi Hanratty has been acting for more than half her life. She's had the pleasure of working with some of Hollywood's biggest names including Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis, Simon West, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jim Carrey, Robin Wright, Gary Oldman, Cary Elwes, Ray Liotta, Cuba Gooding Jr...

31. Morena Baccarin

Actress | Deadpool

Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Her uncle was actor Ivan Setta. She is of Italian as well as Lebanese and Portuguese/Brazilian descent. She moved to New York at the age of ten, when her father was transferred there. She ...

32. Brianna Hildebrand

Actress | Deadpool

Brianna Caitlin Hildebrand is an American actress from Texas widely known for portraying Negasonic Teenage Warhead, an X-Man with the best name ever from the Deadpool film series alongside Ryan Reynolds. She also played Aurora Decker-Morningstar in the Netflix series Lucifer, Sadie Cunningham from ...

33. Jenn Lyon

Actress | Justified

Born and raised in North Carolina, Jenn Lyon is an award-winning stage actress who recently made the leap to film and television work. She moved to New York after graduating the North Carolina School of the Arts and has worked extensively in theatre ever since. Theatre highlights include appearing ...

34. Natalie Dormer

Actress | Game of Thrones

Natalie Dormer born February 11, 1982 is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Anne Boleyn on the Showtime series The Tudors (2007-10), as Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones (2012-14), Irene Adler on the CBS series Elementary (2013-15), and as Cressida in the ...

35. Kerri Doherty

Writer | The Goldbergs

Kerri Doherty grew up in Carver, MA and attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she received a BFA in Film/Television. Kerri is most well known as the creator and star of Geeking Out, an awkward celebrity interview web series with everyone's #1 super fan. Guests include Kyle ...

36. Cecily Fay

Actress | Warrioress

Cecily Fay was born on April 6, 1978 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Warrioress (2013), Babes with Blades (2018) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).

37. Chloë Grace Moretz

Actress | Kick-Ass

Moretz is best known for her work in the sci-fi thriller series The Peripheral, created by Scott B. Smith; the Mattson Tomlin-directed sci-fi thriller Mother/Android; Neil Jordan's thriller Greta; Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud, which claimed the Midnight Madness People's Choice Award at the ...

38. Alyshia Ochse

Actress | True Detective

Alyshia Ochse is a producer and actress, known for True Detective (2014), The Other Woman (2014) and #Freerayshawn (2020).

39. Alison Brie

Actress | GLOW

Alison Brie was born in Hollywood, California, to Joanne (Brenner), who worked at a non-profit child care agency, and Charles Terry Schermerhorn, a musician and entertainment reporter. Her mother is Jewish and her father has Scottish, Dutch, English, German, and Norwegian ancestry. Brie grew up in ...

40. Isla Fisher

Actress | Wedding Crashers

Isla Lang Fisher was born on February 3, 1976 in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher, who worked as a banker for the U.N. She spent her early childhood in Bathgate, Scotland, before moving to Perth, Australia with her family in the early 1980s. From a young age, Isla ...

41. Krysten Ritter

Actress | Jessica Jones

Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica Jones in the Peabody, Hugo, and Emmy Award-winning Netflix original series, Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015). Her performance, which earned her a prestigious Critics Choice nomination, a Saturn nomination, a Webby Award and a Glamour Best International TV Actress Award,...

42. Claudia Kim

Actress | Avengers: Age of Ultron

Claudia Kim, is a South Korean actress and model. She has appeared in the television series Queen of the Game (2006-2007) and Marco Polo (2014-2016), as well as the films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), The Dark Tower (2017), and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).

43. Michelle Williams

Actress | Blue Valentine

A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...

44. Emily Ratajkowski

Actress | We Are Your Friends

Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski was born in London, England, to American parents, Kathleen (Balgley), a professor, and John David Ratajkowski, a painter. She is of British Isles, German, Polish, and Jewish ancestry. Emily was raised in Encinitas, California, near San Diego. She traveled a lot, and also ...

45. Amy Schumer

Writer | Trainwreck

Amy Beth Schumer is an American comedian, writer and actress from Manhattan who is known for Trainwreck, Last Comic Standing, Snatched, Expecting Amy, Price Check, I Feel Pretty, The Humans and Inside Amy Schumer. She is married to chef Chris Fischer and had a son. Slated to appear as the iconic ...

46. Esther Ku

Actress | The Jack and Triumph Show

Esther Ku is a stand-up comedian born and improperly raised in Chicago. By the age of thirteen, she became the first chair oboe player in the state of Illinois. She always wrote funny columns for her school paper until she got censored by the administration. Early in her career, she moved to Boston...

47. Esther Kuhn

Actress | Willkommen bei den Hartmanns

Esther Kuhn was born in Salzburg, Austria. Esther is an actor, known for Welcome to Germany (2016), Himmel, Herrgott, Sakrament (2023) and Nightlife (2020).

48. Parker Posey

Actress | Scream 3

Parker Posey was born two months premature in Baltimore, Maryland, to Lynda (Patton) and Chris Posey. The family moved to Monroe, La. and then Laurel, Mississippi, where Chris became owner of Laurel's own Posey Chevrolet. Parker attended high school at R. H. Watkins High School in Laurel, and ...

49. Ellie Kemper

Actress | Bridesmaids

Ellie Kemper, born Elizabeth Claire Kemper on May 2, 1980, is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She is best-known for her role as "Erin Hannon" in the NBC series The Office (2005), as well as her supporting roles in the films Bridesmaids (2011) and 21 Jump Street (2012)). She plays the ...

50. Marisa Tomei

Actress | My Cousin Vinny

Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to Patricia "Addie" (Bianchi), a teacher of English, and Gary Tomei, a lawyer, both of Italian descent. Marisa has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy ...

51. Lex Scott Davis

Actress | The First Purge

Alexis "Lex Scott" Davis was born February 26, 1991. She is an actress from Baltimore, Maryland and has been dancing and acting since she was 3 years old. Davis attended Drexel University as a Dance Physical Therapy major before she moved to New York City in 2013. She continued her studies at the ...

52. Tina Fey

Actress | Date Night

Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, to Xenobia "Jeanne" (Xenakes), a brokerage employee, and Donald Henry Fey, who wrote grant proposals for universities. Her mother is Greek, born in Piraeus, while her father had German, Northern Irish,...

53. Allison Dawn Doiron

Actress | Cult of Chucky

Allison Dawn Doiron is from Prince Edward Island, Canada. She moved to Toronto to pursue acting and has been there ever since. She has played principle roles in film and television and has several national commercials under her belt. She has had recurring roles on shows such as "Seed" and "Lost ...

54. Aubrey Plaza

Actress | Safety Not Guaranteed

Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress and comedian known for her deadpan style. She portrayed April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation (2009), and after appearing in supporting roles in several films, had her first leading role in the 2012 comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (...

55. Marie Maser

Actress | Terrifier

Marie Maser is known for Terrifier (2011).

56. Katie Maguire

Actress | Billions

Katie Maguire is an award winning actor and filmmaker. She grew up in Long Island, New York. While still attending university Katie booked her first television role in TNT's "The Big Time" starring Molly Ringwald and Christina Hendricks. Katie has worked extensively in both the theatre and in film....

57. Juliana Harkavy

Actress | Last Shift

Juliana Harkavy is an American actress of Dominican, African, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Hungarian descent. Born on New Years Day in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, Harkavy has been appearing in theater, film, and television since the age of nine. Juliana was born to mother Berta Carela, an ...

58. Pollyanna McIntosh

Actress | The Walking Dead

Pollyanna McIntosh grew up in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her birthplace of Scotland, where she first began performing, on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. At 16, she left for London and soon became involved in indie filmmaking (her first paid gig was as a stoner in Irvine Welsh's ...

59. Beth Riesgraf

Actress | Leverage: Redemption

Beth Jean Riesgraf is an American actress. She is known for her portrayal of Parker on the TNT television series Leverage (2008-2012) and the revival Leverage: Redemption which streams on IMDb TV. Originally from Belle Plaine, Minnesota, Riesgraf graduated from Cimarron-Memorial High School in Las ...

60. Pauley Perrette

Actress | NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service

Pauley Perrette is known to millions around the world as Abby Sciuto, the brilliant but offbeat forensic scientist on CBS's NCIS (2003). Her additional credits include appearances on such shows as Almost Famous (2000), The Ring (2002), 24 (2001), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Murder One (...

61. Sarah Fischer

Actress | Ted

Sarah Fischer was born on July 17, 1991 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA as Sarah Cairns Fischer. She attended Quinnipiac University in Connecticut where she graduated in 2013 with a degree in Marketing. She is an actress, known for her work in Ted (2012), I Feel Pretty (2018) and Web of Lies (...

62. Stephanie Leigh Rose

Actress | Don't Go to the Reunion

Stephanie Leigh Rose is known for Don't Go to the Reunion (2013), Off the Air and The Alley Cat (2014).



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