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Ana Alicia Ortiz Torres is a Mexican actress, she was born in Mexico City, Mexico on December 12, 1956. Ana Alicia became the third of four children to Carlos Celestino Ortiz and Alicia Torres Ortiz. Her parents were hotel agents in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. She grew up between Acapulco, Mexico City and El Paso, Texas from age 6 after the passing of her father. There, she lived with her grandmother, widowed mother, her uncle Louie and three siblings in a house her father had purchased for her grandmother.
Ana Alicia received a full scholarship to attend the prestigious Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Upon arrival, Ana Alicia auditioned and won the lead role for Jules Feiffer's "Crawling Arnold". On summer break after her freshmen year, Ana Alicia auditioned for The Adobe Horseshoe Dinner Theatre outside El Paso, Texas. The theatre offered her a position as a recurring actress in all feature productions. The opportunity would allow her to work with name actors from Hollywood and New York and receive a large weekly salary. She accepted the offer and also acquired her actor's equity card through her term. She left Wellesley and finished her education at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Ana Alicia spent the next three years, performing in main stage productions at UTEP as well as having significant roles in the Adobe Horseshoe repertoire.
After graduation, Ana Alicia moved to Los Angeles and struggled to attain success as an actress while studying for her law school entrance exam. Six months later, her big acting break came when she won the role of Alicia Nieves on ABC's Ryan's Hope (1975). According to Ana Alicia, working on the show in New York was exciting - not only because it was an acting job, but because she was a fan of the the show. Although the role was a secondary one - Nieves had romances with policeman Bob Reid and Dr. Pat Ryan. It provided her with much-needed exposure.
After 15 months, Ana Alicia left the show to become one of the last Universal Studios contract players. She moved to Los Angeles and in addition to her work as a contract player, she attended Southwestern University Law School at night. As she acquired larger roles that required her to leave town, it became impossible to continue the grueling schedule of acting during the day and studying for school at night. She had to make a choice so she sat down and wrote the pros and cons of each decision and when she realized her passion was to act, she made the very difficult decision to drop out of law school. Once she was focused, her career began to open up quickly.
She landed several roles on major television films and series' episodes. Within a year, the Universal terminated their contract player department. It was the end of an era. Soon after, her teacher Milton Katselis suggested she stop playing virginal roles and turn to roles such as the tortured, sexually deprived Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Exploring this previously undiscovered part of her acting range, Ana Alicia pursued an audition for Falcon Crest (1981). In the room was a female casting director Doris Sabbagh along with Earl Hamner, Robert McCollough, and Larry Elikann. Ana Alicia's job was to seduce Lorenzo, played in the room by Doris. As Ana Alicia ran her fingers up Doris' stockings, conservative Southerner Earl Hamner stood up and stopped the scene, and said, "Thank you very much. That was wonderful." Less than an hour later, Ana Alicia's agent called to let her know she had won the role of Melissa Agretti.
Ana Alicia was on the show for seven years, playing the ambitious, scheming Melissa Agretti, and playing opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing and a plethora of handsome men. In October of 1988, Ana Alicia was written out of Falcon Crest (1981), and the show subsequently dropped considerably in the ratings. In a last ditch attempt to revitalize the show, she was brought back to the show later that season as a look-a-like of Melissa's, named Samantha Ross. The guest stint was short-lived and Ana Alicia quickly moved on to other projects, including the TV movies Miracle Landing (1990) and Rio Shannon (1993), as well as the feature film, Romero (1989). Ana Alicia has also devoted much of her time to various animal and human causes. She was the national spokesperson for the Humane Society, and has presented awards promoting Hispanic achievements in the media on behalf of the Golden Eagle Awards. Lorenzo Lamas was co-presenter.
In 1991, while in France hosting an episode of The World's Greatest Stunts for GRB Entertainment, she met and fell madly in love with her now ex husband Gary Benz. In 1996, after finishing the pilot for Acapulco Heat, Ana Alicia made the decision to leave her acting career and invest in being a mother to her two young children Cathryn and Michael, her new passion in life.
In March 2015, having raised her children and with her youngest in college, she returned to her first love but as a producer opening up her own production company Quebrada Entertainment: its purpose is to develop scripted and unscripted film and television that reaches a culturally and demographically diverse audience across all genres through the development and execution of quality storytelling.- Actress
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Kelli Maroney is an American actress whose career spans several decades, with 72 production credits, including 31+ films and over 540 hours of television. She first came to recognition as the bad seed Lolita "Kimberly Harris" in the ABC Daytime drama Ryan's Hope, winning the plum role only two weeks after arriving in NYC to attend classes at The National Shakespeare Company Conservatory. She soon found herself acting opposite the likes of Joan Fontaine and Christopher Reeve as they made guest appearances on the show. She went on to take over the role of sex-kitten manipulator "Tina Lord" on ABC's One Life to Live. Kelli also gained notice for her portrayal of the exasperated cheerleader "Cindy Carr/Spirit Bunny" in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a film that for many epitomized the 80s. Today Kelli's cheerleader costume is on display in the Universal Studios Museum. Strong female leading roles, notably MAC-10-toting cheerleader "Samantha Belmont" in the zombie apocalypse classic Night of The Comet, the sweet Killbot-slaying "Alison Parks" in Choppin Mall, "Jamie" in the underground slasher The Zero Boys, teen psychotic-killer "Jolene" in Slayground, and several other well-received films quickly earned Kelli her seat at the table as a Final Girl in the horror genre. She also guest-starred in a variety of prime-time ABC, NBC, and CBS shows, including the ever-popular Murder, She Wrote. Kelli has said that her most fulfilling role to date is the schizophrenic femme fatale "Merrie/Meredith" in Showtime's noir thriller Face Down (written and directed by Night of the Comet's Thom Eberhardt), playing opposite Joe Mantegna, J.K. Simmons, and Adam Ant. Other streaming highlights include Kelli's channeling Tammy Faye Baker on HBO's True Blood and playing herself in Adult Swim's Tim and Eric's Awesome Show-Great Job! alongside Patrick Duffy. Current on-demand films include Scare Package II on Shudder, The Wild Man, and Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (with horror icons Lance Henriksen, Adrienne Barbeau, and Bill Moseley), The Deep Ones (a modernized film adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story) Night Caller, (the 70s-inspired shocker with Steve Railsback and Lew Temple), and Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama II. Slated for release in 2023 include The Wild Man, Scalper, The Old Ones, and Staycation, a film in which she both appears and has a co-producer credit. Kelli's first job as executive co-producer was the 1999 festival award-winning short film Sam and Mike (in which she also co-starred). The experience ignited her love of film festivals, and she remains deeply committed to championing independent filmmakers. Her work from 2019 to the present has garnered festival awards in and for short films and full-length features which include Best Actress (Kelli Maroney) Best Ensemble Cast, Best Film, and other department-specific awards for creative teams. Kelli is featured in CNN's The Movies: The 80s! She is also interviewed in six documentaries: In Search of Darkness: I, II, and III; Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time; Direct to Video: A Study of the Independent Film Scene of the 1990s; and Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary, debuting in 2023. Kelli is a strong advocate for mental health awareness and animal welfare. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Dan Ulin, and two rescue cats.- Actress
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Nana Visitor was born on 26 July 1957 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Friday the 13th (2009) and Ted 2 (2015).- Alexandra Neil is an actress best-known for her work on daytime television. She has played a wide range of characters on different shows -- from surgeon "Paige Miller" on One Life to Live (1968) to town tramp "Ruby Wright" on Texas (1980). Her other shows include As the World Turns (1956) ("Dawn Wheeler"), Guiding Light (1952) ("Rose McClaren Shayne"), All My Children (1970) ("Casey Wexler"), Another World (1964) ("Dawn Wheeler"), Ryan's Hope (1975) ("Teresa/Poppy Donoghue"), and others. She has also appeared in episodic television (in a number of guest star roles), and in some interesting indie films, as well as some bigger films. Alexandra works in theater, and has appeared on Broadway -- in Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll", and in Stephen Belber's "Match". She is married to actor John C. Vennema. She has one daughter, Zoe Ruffner, and a stepdaughter, Bess Vennema.
- Judith Chapman was born on 15 November 1951 in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), The Sweetest Thing (2002) and 28 Days (2000). She has been married to Neilan Maxwell Tyree since 8 December 1984.
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Mary Page Keller received formal training at the University of Maryland and the Boston Conservatory of Music, leading to various parts in musical theater in Washington, D.C. After training in New York, doing everything from theater to soap opera, she relocated to Los Angeles to star in Duet (1987) - one of the first series for the fledgling Fox TV Network. She went on to headline other series and has recently added writing and producing to her resume, including developing multiple pilots for NBC Universal and Warner Brothers TV with her husband and screenwriting partner, Thomas Ian Griffith. They live in Los Angeles and have two sons, Conner and Eamon..- Yasmine Bleeth was born on 14 June 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for BASEketball (1998), Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003) and Nash Bridges (1996). She has been married to Paul Cerrito since 25 August 2002.
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Christine Ebersole was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Marian Esther (Goodley) and Robert Amos Ebersole, a steel company president. She won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in "Grey Gardens". Previously, she was awarded the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama League awarded her both a citation and the Outstanding Performance of the Year, and she was named to its dais for 2007. She also received a special citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Obie for her off-Broadway turn in "Grey Gardens".- Barrett was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and she grew up in Oklahoma. Like many youngsters who would go on to find acting success, as a child Nancy put on plays in her backyard, co-starring her sister, Martha. Nancy attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for two years. There, she met Ivan Rider, then a drama professor (later a director in New York), who was the greatest influences on her early years on stage.
After her second year at Baylor, Nancy and two girlfriends spent a summer in Los Angeles. She starred in a production of "Little Mary Sunshine", and fell in love with Los Angeles. She transferred to UCLA, where she graduated a year later. She then played the lead in L.A., in "The Fantasticks" (with Bill Bixby, later the star of TV classics "My Favorite Martian" and "The Incredible Hulk"). From there, she moved to New York and more stage work. She made her Broadway debut in "Pickwick" along with Davy Jones (who later starred in "The Monkees" on TV).
In 1966, Nancy became part of the original cast of Dark Shadows (1966), in the role of Carolyn Stoddard, daughter of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the family matriarch played by screen legend Joan Bennett. While on the show (playing seven characters in 405 episodes), Nancy took breaks to appear in plays, including Neil Simon's "The Star-Spangled Girl" and "The Physicists".
Nancy was married briefly and divorced in the early 60s. While on Dark Shadows, Nancy was married to co-star David Ford. The couple also divorced. In the early 1970s, she married Dr. Harold Kaplan, a prominent New York psychiatrist. Dr. Kaplan died in January1998. Before his death, Nancy's husband got a chance to see her fulfill a dream. For years she'd considered performing a one-woman show, and in August 1997, she did, in "As If We Never Said Good-bye", at the annual Dark Shadows Festival in New York City. She has since performed similar shows in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, the mid-west, and at the New York cabaret club, ,Don't Tell Mama'.
During the holiday season of 1999, Nancy made her ballet debut in a production of "The Nutcracker". She is currently in the planning stages of a music CD which she hopes to have completed in early 2003. - Actress
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Anne DeSalvo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Arthur (1981), The Amati Girls (2000) and My Favorite Year (1982).- Actress
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Susan Scannell met her husband, Chris Roland, on the basic cable soap Another Life (1981), where she played "Becky Hewitt" and he was "Russ Weaver". Susan left the Virginia Beach-based soap to move to New York to take the role of "Kristin Carter" on Search for Tomorrow (1951). They eventually divorced soon after Susan got the role of "Nicole Simpson Colby" on Dynasty (1981). Susan Scannell also had a contract double role on Ryan's Hope (1975) as "Chessy Blake" and "Gabrielle DuBujak". She also appeared as a guest star on Remington Steele and The A-Team. Her most recent role was a brief stint as "Kathy Lima" on All My Children (1970) in 1991. Susan also is a talented singer and was a lead singer in a band in the early 80s called "Fantasm" produced by Didier Marouani in France.- Julia Campbell is an American film and television actress. Her most noted role to date was Christie Masters in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. Campbell had a starring role in the feature film, Tillamook Treasure (2006), in which she plays Kathryn Kimbell, the mother of the story's lead character. She has appeared on such television shows as Still Standing, Martial Law, Herman's Head, Ally McBeal, Malcolm in the Middle, Seinfeld ("The Frogger" episode), Friends, House, The Mentalist, The Practice, The Pretender, and Dexter. Some of her earliest notable roles were on the daytime soap operas Ryan's Hope (in which she played Ryan granddaughter Maura "Katie" Thompson) and Santa Barbara (in which she played Courtney Capwell) and the comedy film Livin' Large. In 2009, she guest starred on the NBC drama Heroes as Mary Campbell, mother of a new recurring character, Luke, in the episode "Trust and Blood". She appeared on the last episode of the series The Shield, on which her husband Jay Karnes played the character of Dutch Wagenbach.
- Maria Pitillo was born in Elmira, NY, and grew up in Mahwah, NJ. She is of Italian and Irish descent.
Known primarily for her role as Audrey Timmonds in the monster flick Godzilla (1998), Maria got into show business after being invited by a girlfriend to audition for a part in a TV commercial. After a few tryouts, Maria was soon being featured in television commercials for everything from Pepto-Bismol and Chic Jeans, to working bit parts in film and on TV.
Maria was officially introduced to the world as Angel, daughter of a Brooklyn mobster, in the production of Spike of Bensonhurst (1988). After a recurring role on the ABC Soap Opera, Ryan's Hope (1975), Maria then packed her bags and set her sights on Sunny California. With small roles in a number of films and on TV, she got her first shot at a steady gig, and was cast as Gina in the ill-fated South of Sunset (1993), in which only one episode aired.
Two years later, having experienced Hollywood's cycle of boom-and-bust, the undeterred Maria successfully tackled the lead role in the TV movie, Crimes of Passion: Escape from Terror - The Teresa Stamper Story (1995) as well as the role of a mobsters daughter in another TV movie, Between Love and Honor (1995). Topping off a successful year, Maria landed the part of Alicia, on the Fox Network comedy, Partners (1995) co-starring Tate Donovan and Jon Cryer.
Maria made her name with a number of guest starring appearances on TV, and with leading roles in the films Dear God (1996), and Lew Grade's tear-jerker, Something to Believe In (1998). After Godzilla, Maria's career culminated in a recurring role on TV's Providence (1999) (2001-2002). - Actress
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Lauren-Marie Taylor was born in the Bronx, New York. She known for Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), Girls Nite Out (1982) and Neighbors (1982). From 1983-1995, Lauren starred as Stacey Donovan Forbes on ABC's Daytime Drama, Loving. She followed up her tenure on Loving with a hosting gig on Handmade by Design, an early Lifetime TV show. Her newest film, In a Violent Nature (Director: Chris Nash), will be featured at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Midnight Program. Lauren is the creator and host of The Not the Final Girl Podcast. Married to John Didrichsen since 1983, they have three grown children and a houseful of cats and dogs.- Red-haired former farm girl Katherine Justice came to prominence as a prolific TV guest star of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. She first attracted attention as beauty contest winner 'Miss Ohio' in 1960. Being underage (17), she was disqualified from competing for the 'Miss Universe' title in Miami Beach. At 22, Katherine graduated from Carnegie Tech Drama School and then progressed to further acting studies at the Hubbard Playhouse. She took her first steps on the stage in 1964 at the Front Street Theater in Memphis, on the Arena Stage in Washington (including as Lola in Damn Yankees) and in summer stock the following year.
In early 1966, Katherine was noticed by the film producer and talent agent Harold Hecht during her maiden TV performance in an episode of The Big Valley (1965) and cast as one of a group of migrating settlers on the Oregon Trail in the feature film The Way West (1967). A year later, she won another pivotal role on the big screen in the western-murder mystery 5 Card Stud (1968), starring Dean Martin and with Robert Mitchum as a homicidal Baptist preacher.
Signed to a 5-year contract by Paramount, Katherine decided to focus her career on television. She appeared twice on The Invaders (1967): the first time, as one of the alien invaders posing as David Vincent's former lover, in the first season episode The Innocents, and the second time as the fiancée of a close friend in second season's The Possessed. In Prescription: Murder (1968), first in the Columbo series of 'Mystery Movies', she guest-starred as an actress who impersonates the dead wife of her lover (Gene Barry) in order to provide him with an alibi for her murder. She was an outlaw's moll, kidnapped by a bounty hunter, in an episode of The Virginian (1962) and featured multiple times as different characters in Gunsmoke (1955), The F.B.I. (1965), Mannix (1967), Cannon (1971) and Barnaby Jones (1973). Add to this a recurring role in the melodrama Falcon Crest (1981) (which reunited her with 'Invaders' co-star Roy Thinnes in the role of his on-screen wife) and a starring turn in the syndicated nightly soap Dangerous Women (1991), modelled on the Australian TV series Prisoner (1979), with Katherine cast as former 'top dog' inmate Rita Jones (the U.S. equivalent of Australia's 'Bea' Smith, as played by Val Lehman).
Married and divorced from one James Clarence Brown Jr., Katherine resides in Van Nuys, California, under the name Katherine Justice Brown. She retired from acting in 2015. - Actress
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Eve Gordon was born on 25 June 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Circle (2017), The Grudge 2 (2006) and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! (1997). She has been married to Todd Waring since 14 November 1987. They have two children.- Producer
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Shari Hamrick was born in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), The Interpreter (2005) and Twisted Little Lies (2021). She has been married to Mark S. Grewal since 4 October 2014. She was previously married to Steven Hamrick.- Actress
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Traci Lind was born on 1 April 1968 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Class of 1999 (1990), Bugsy (1991) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988). She has been married to Shakil Richardson since 27 February 1992. They have two children.- Actress
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Lara Harris was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Fisher King (1991) and No Man's Land (1987).- Actress
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Lisa Howard was born on 24 November 1963 in London, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Moonstruck (1987), Highlander (1992) and The War of the Roses (1989). She has been married to Daniel Cerone since 17 December 1994. They have two children.- Actress
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Dana Welles Delany was born on March 13, 1956, in New York City and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. Dana knew early in life that she wanted to be an actress. Following graduation from Wesleyan University, this tall (5'6") beauty moved to New York and developed her skills working in daytime television and theater. Dana starred in the Broadway show "A Life" and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions as well. Her role in Nicholas Kazan's controversial "Bloodmoon" in New York led her to Hollywood. Dana acted in a number of TV series, working steadily until she could get her own starring vehicle. That happened in 1988 when Dana became identified with Army nurse Colleen McMurphy in ABC TV's critically acclaimed series China Beach (1988), the role earning her four Emmy nominations and two Emmy Awards as Best Actress.
Dana moved on to movies and eventually started getting starring roles in films such as Tombstone. With over a dozen TV and movie projects within the last few years, Dana is one of the busiest actresses in Hollywood.- Actress
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Colleen Zenk was born on 20 January 1953 in Barrington, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for As the World Turns (1956), Annie (1982) and The Comedian (2016). She was previously married to Mark Pinter and Michael Crouch.- Actress
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Ellen Dolan was born on 16 October 1955 in Monticello, Iowa, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for As the World Turns (1956), A Timeless Love (2016) and The Cloud.- Actress
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Martha Byrne was born on 23 December 1969 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for As the World Turns (1956), Crisis (2014) and Gotham the Series (2009). She has been married to Michael McMahon since 12 November 1994. They have three children.