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- Mortadelo the Dog is known for Cazadores (1997).
- Kalo the Dog is known for Trumpet (2011).
- Milo is known for Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002) and The 10 Minute Run!!! (2001).
- Brigitte the Dog is known for Walter Don't Dance (2011), Pups United (2015) and Resident Advisors (2015).
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Gill Raddings is known for Children of Men (2006), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Enola Holmes (2020).- Leo the Dog was an actor, known for Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982). He died on 6 April 1989.
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Caitlin was born on August 16, 1953 in Whitefish Bay, Milwakee, Wisconsin. Growing up there, she and her two older sisters turned their garage into a theatre. She made her formal stage debut at eight, when her mother, a drama teacher, cast Caitlin as Peter Pan in a Cumberland School summer production. Caitlin admits there may have been some bias at that audition, but none was evident when she joined the North Shore Children's Theatre, a local professional touring company, at age 11. She played clarinet in the band at Whitefish Bay High School, where she was also a member of the choir. At 17, she won a scholarship at the prestigious Julliard School of Drama in New York City.
In her four years at Julliard, Caitlin studied under Oscar-winning actor John Houseman, and performed such classic roles as Masha in "The Seagull," Doreen in "Tartuffe," Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet," Mary Boyle in "Juno and the Paycock," Maryanne in "Measure for Measure," and Esmeralda in "Camino Reef."
After graduation, Caitlin made her off-Broadway debut as Loretta in "Hot House" at the Chelsea Theatre. She remained at Chelsea to play Finkel in "Yentl" and to understudy Tovah Feldshuh in the title role. She moved to Broadway to understudy the role of Elizabeth in "A Matter of Gravity," starring Katherine Hepburn, then to Seattle to appear as Celia in "As You Like It," Gwendolyn in "Travesties," and Eylie in "Ladyhouse Blues."
Caitlin next appeared in "Gogol" at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and played the double roles of Belle and Mrs. Cratchit in "A Christmas Carol" at Playwrights Horizon. On closing night she made a trial move to Los Angeles and in five weeks was cast as Anna Marie Hollyhock in an ABC comedy series, "Apple Pie." The series introduced Caitlin to tap dancing, an interest she still pursues.
Caitlin remained in Los Angeles to play fourteen-year old Bianca in "White Marriage" at the Odyssey Theatre, which earned her a Drama-Logue award for best actress. She also appeared in two television movies, "Mark Twain's America" and "The Seeding of Sarah Burns."
She returned to the East to star as Ersilla Drei in Pirandello's "Naked" at the Syracuse Stage, and as Amy in the horror feature "He Knows You're Alone." Performances in "Ape Watch" at the Mark Taper Forum Lab, "The Brides" at the Lenox Art Centre, and off-Broadway as Olive Lashbrook in the 40s classic "The Voice of the Turtle" and "Scenes and Revelations" soon followed. She also appeared as waitress Lurleen Hamett in ABC's "One Life to Live."
One of Caitlin's early roles was in He Knows You're Alone (1980) (best known as Tom Hanks's film debut). She also played 1930's Hollywood actress Dolores Farrar in Woody Allen's film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) (1982). Allen would cast her in two more films: Zelig (1983) (1983) and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). She also acted in Three O'Clock High (1987) (1987), which was executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.
She was best known to TV viewers for her performances as Sarah Stickney White in Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982) (1982) and as the first Snow White in The Charmings (1987) (1987). As Sarah, she was an American secret agent who poses as a singer to cover her activities as an American agent operating in the South Pacific. And as Snow White, she played the fairy tale character surviving in the modern world to perfection.
She has also created a company called "Caitlin" which markets perfumes that she personally created.
Caitlin continues to act, her recent feature film was Brooklyn Lobster (2005), where she played Aunt Fran.
She lives on a horse farm outside New York City, with her many pets, including dogs and horses.- Marta DuBois was born on 15 December 1952 in David, Panama. She was an actress, known for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982) and Magnum, P.I. (1980). She was married to Salvatore Jack Giordano. She died on 8 May 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Fujioka was born on 29 June 1925 in Olaa, Hawaii, USA. He was an actor, known for Mortal Kombat (1995), American Ninja (1985) and Pearl Harbor (2001). He died on 13 December 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Elizabeth Lindsey was born on 17 April 1956 in Oahu, Hawaii, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Bulworth (1998), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Then There Were None (1996). She has been married to George D. Crowley, III since 11 November 2018. She was previously married to J.W.A. Buyers.- Actress
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Born mostly deaf from an unknown cause. Completely deaf in right ear, some residual hearing in left ear in which she uses a hearing aid. Enjoys reading, especially with deaf children. Also enjoys attending deaf community events. Role models include Phyllis Frelich, Linda Bove, Freda Norman and Sue Thomas. In addition to acting, also teaches American Sign Language.- Fitzgerald William is known for Joe Pera Talks with You (2018) and Silent Bark.
- 2018 National Stunt Dog Champion / Champion Trick Dog / Dog Actor / Rescue Good Beasley is a rescued pup who has changed the life of his "Mom" forever. National Stunt Dog Champion, Trick Dog Champion, TV Personality & Star and forever best friend. We have a mission to spread positivity wherever we go. Our performances have messages of self-esteem and anti-bullying and we hope to empower others to follow their dreams. Providing performances, appearances, and demos all over with BFF Pet Services and the Bone-A-Fied Talent Group.
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Janet was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. Her professional career began following her time at Toronto's Leah Posluns Theatre. She first studied Dance with Jacques Fosier and later studied Drama with Reva Stern and Rose Dubin. In 1984, she went to study and at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where she studied under the tutelage of Sandford Meisner, graduating in 1985. Her film career ;Race to Freedom; began in 1986 but she continued to learn her craft studying with Carol Rosenfeld Kurt Reis and Neil Freeman at C.A.S.T. and finally studying theatre with Jim Wilson in Los Angeles. Her career in Theatre, Television and Film has won accolades in Canada and the United States. For example, for her role as Sarah in the television movie Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, which costarred Courtney B. Vance, Janet Bailey received a Best Actress Gemini Nomination. The production also screened at the Canadian Embassy in Washington and Bailey was introduced as "one of Canada's best kept secrets". Her work on the series Traders, in the role of Susannah Marks, brought her a second and third nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In Deepa Mehta's screen version of The Republic of Love she plays the quirky ex-wife of Bruce Greenwood's Tom Avery. That same year she played opposite Greg Kinear in the feature film Godsend, starring Robert De Niro. In the final season of the critically acclaimed series Slings and Arrows, Bailey played soap opera diva Barbara Gorman, which she followed with the role of straight talking lawyer Susan Aimes on NBC's Beautiful People. After viewing Bailey's interpretation of the sweet but streetwise prostitute, Velma Fontaine, in the television movie Spencer Ceremony, New York Magazine singled her out as "meriting a movie of her own" Her fourth Gemini nomination, this time for Best actress in a guest role, came for her portrayal of Harriet in an episode of Global Television's Blue Murder. She also teaches theatre due to being active on both stage and screen.- Susan Chong is known for Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002).
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Tony Craig is a performer whose abilities apparently know few boundaries. He is an accomplished musician, and has performed live on stage as a singer/drummer with Ben E King, Etta James, Martha Reeves, Mary Wells, Sam and Dave, The Mighty Sparrow, to name just a few. As a songwriter and session musician, he has recorded albums with artists such as Dominic Troiano and Eddie Schwartz, Carol Pope and Rough Trade Dan Hill and many others.
Now a landed immigrant in Canada, Trinadad-born Craig came to the Far North as a result of expanding his career. Performing in a band gave him his chance to try out another country, and he humorously related that in all the years he'd sung the classic "White Christmas," he hadn't realized just what it meant until he moved to the cold and snowy climate of Canada. The novelty lasted only so long, but Tony relishes the cold weather now.
How did he get into acting? His career change resulted from his recording studio in Toronto being robbed. To get his mind off the disaster, his girlfriend took to a movie set as an extra. Little did Tony know that he would be offered a larger role in John Grin's Christmas, opposite Robert Guillaume, Geoffrey Holder and Roscoe Lee Brown, which led to a new career.
Over the next decade, he appeared as a guest star in a variety of television series, such as Forever Knight, Tekwar, Kung Fu: the Legend Continues, and Top Cops. On the big screen, he has had roles in Disney's The Ref and Soul Survivor. His latest work is the Showtime cable movie, The Sweetest Gift, in which he plays a biker and romantic interest of Tisha Cambell also staring Dian Carol and Helen Shaver.- Marc Gomes was born on 19 June 1960 in Georgetown, Guyana. He is an actor, known for The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998), Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002) and Divas (1995).
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Polly Shannon grew up in Aylmer, Quebec, with her mother, a Canadian scriptwriter for children's television, and father, Director-General of Health Canada. She was given a deadline of the age of 25 to make it or break it as an actress, and she's more than met that quota. In 1999, alone, she's had hits with The Girl Next Door (1998) (with Henry Czerny) and The Sheldon Kennedy Story (1999) (with Jonathan Scarfe of Madison (1993) and ER (1994) fame), coming a long way from her first role as Nina in the Canadian teen series Catwalk (1992) in the early nineties.- Actress
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Kate Trotter was born on 5 February 1953 in Toronto, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Tru Love (2013), Upside Down (2012) and The Silence (2019).- Actress
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Maria Herrera was born on 13 November 1969 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Fatherhood (2021), Pet Sematary (2019) and The Recruit (2022).- Actress
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Elvy was born in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress and casting director, known for The Office (2005), Resident Alien (2021) and Mildred Pierce (2011).- Dawn Lyn made her acting debut at age four in the low-budget, independent Cry Blood, Apache (1970). It wasn't until she was 12 that she discovered she had played a Native American boy in the movie. She was the original Prudence in the pilot for Nanny and the Professor (1970) TV series. By the time the pilot sold at the last minute, Dawn had already been released from her contract and cast as Dodie in My Three Sons (1960), and the producers of "Nanny and the Professor" unsuccessfully sued in an attempt to get her back. She worked steadily, financially supporting her family, until she was in her mid-teens; she says her petite stature began to work against her instead of for her, as it had when she was a child.
Dawn decided to branch out professionally, instead of concentrating on acting, and has done many things over the years, including co-owning a boutique on Pier 39 when she lived in San Francisco. People often ask her if she will act again; her answer is that while she has not actively pursued roles, that door is not closed. - Marium Carvell can be seen as Dr. Carol Lindstrom in "Chucky" and the character of Anorah in "Star Trek Discovery". She can be seen as Nancy in season 1 and 2 of "Pillow Talk" and as nurse Donna Williams in " Good Sam" . She has also appeared in many movies including "Picture Perfect Romance", "Faith Heist" movies 1and 2, and "My Next Door Nightmare".
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Ohio-born author and former FBI agent. She was mostly deaf by 18 months and trained with speech therapists to help her speaking voice. She became an expert lip-reader. Thomas started out at the FBI in 1979 as a fingerprint examiner. She then became a lip-reader for an undercover surveillance team and spent almost four years working for the FBI, until 1983. In 1990, she published her autobiography, Silent Night, which became a TV series, Sue Thomas, F.B. Eye. A golden retriever stood in during the run of the program for Thomas' own hearing dog at the time, a golden retriever named Levi. In 2001, Thomas was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In 2020, she received a lung cancer diagnosis but as of 2021, she claims that she is cancer-free and when not at home in a log cabin in Vermont, she travels with her service dog, a yellow lab named Sir "Rodney" the Great, as well as with a full-time associate.- Sarah Lafleur is known for Lake Placid 2 (2007), Devil May Cry (2001) and Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie: Black Dream Hole (1995).
- Cybele Pohl is known for Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002) and 1-800-Missing (2003).
- Daisy White was born on 19 July 1924 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Curtains (1983), RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001) and Obsession (1981). She died on 9 July 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Lori Hallier was born on 8 July 1959 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for My Bloody Valentine (1981), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (2002).
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Tara Samuel is a Canadian award-winning actor, writer, producer and filmmaker. Canadian Screen Award Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a series for her role "Vangeline Neddeaus" in award-winning CBC original series The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island. Most widely known for her television role "Tara Williams" in long-running series SueThomas: F.B.Eye, which continues to air around the world.
Tara is producer-actor of the films Ruby Booby, Prairie Sonata, and The Rwanda Blend and FIND, written and directed by Tara Samuel and Nominated Best Narrative Short at the Austin Film Festival. Winner, Best Actress for her role "Ruby" in RUBY BOOBY, Manhattan Film Festival. 2021 feature film roles in LUNE, written by Aviva Armour-Ostroff and directed by award-winning co-directors Aviva Armour-Ostroff and Arturo Perrez, and THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS, written and directed by award winning director Jennifer Abbott.
Tara is published in MovieMakerMagazine online, is co-founder of the renowned Los Angeles film collective wemakemovies.org, and is a professor at George Brown Theatre School in Toronto. She wrote and recorded the kid-empowering children's album Be Who You Are with Paula Tiberius.
Tara's production company Baubo's Plan develops and produces tv and film scripts that illuminate the ferocity and complexity of women's battles and triumphs, with the goal of igniting love and awakening in audiences.- An extremely cute Siberian Husky, Draco was only 7 months when he got the role of 'Diefenbaker' in the TV series Due South (1994) in February 1997. He has brown eyes, is of average build and size and has reddish-brown overtones on his back. He was an energetic, quick learner loved by the whole Due South crew, and was trained by Rick Parker, who also did stunts on the show. In the 3rd and 4th season of Due South, Draco replaced 'Lincoln', another siberian husky, who was the original Diefenbaker, because Lincoln was becoming too slow and difficult to work with. Fans loved Draco so much that at one point, he would receive more fan mail than any of the other cast members!
- Lincoln is known for Due South (1994).
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Elle Downs is a sixth generation Canadian of African Canadian and Native American (Cherokee Indian) descent. Her father was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Born an only child in Toronto, she was raised by her great grandmother and great aunt, Louise and Clara Little (Bell).
Elle has been interested in the arts from the early age of four. She often had visions of dancing and being on television. Throughout her early years she has taken piano lessons and acted in local theater plays. In high school she created a dance group called the `Hot Ice Dancers' and found her greatest love performing in front of audiences. Elle partook in three beauty pageants in her teens finishing third runner up and first runner up. She won the title of Miss Black Canada in the nineties.
Since, Elle has been developing her career as an actor appearing in TV series' such as Kevin Hill, Monk and 1-800-MISSING, as well as appearing in the feature film Godsend starring Robert DeNiro. Throughout the years she has had the opportunity to work with actors such as Lynn Whitfield, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Vivica A. Fox, and Malcolm McDowell.
Acting being her passion, she still has in her heart the desire to pursue her love for music and is currently working in the studio in her spare time.- Phyllis was born on Feburary 29, 1944, the oldest of 9 children. She attended North Dakota School for the Deaf, graduating in 1962. She went on to Gallaudet College (renamed Gallaudet University), actively participating in theater there. She finally made her debut on April 2, 1967, on the NBC nationwide program, "Theatre of the Deaf". In 1980, she earned the Tony Award for Best Actress of 1980 with her performance in "Children of a Lesser God", a Broadway play, which was also named Best Play of 1980 as well.
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Eva LaRue grew up in California. At the age of 6 she began her show-business career. She starred in television commercials and sang many "jingles" for them. She still often sings at sports events and any other opportunities that arise. Eva likes to ride horses and has shown horses for over a decade. She also enjoys Tae Kwon Do. She's the oldest of three children. She loves acting and is well into her craft.- Actor
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Charles has a myriad of experience in the Entertainment Business. Born into a "Hollywood Showbiz Family" he started off at the early age of 7 singing impromptu with his father's vocal group, "The Ink Spots". With providence, he formed his own band "Songbird" and shortly thereafter acquired a record contract, with GRT, which took him from L.A. to Canada. After several years of touring, recording and "Rockin de House", Charles became interested in the closeness and intimacy of the Theater. Accordingly, he became a thespian, his hunger to understand the inner-workings of this medium was the catalyst to his writing, producing and directing for the stage. Eventually he become Artistic Director of his own theater company, (Black Arts Theater), having had several successes along the way. "For Colored Girls...","Aint Noth'n but a Party", "Fences", etc. Synchronous to this was television & film; one of Charles' first ventures into television was "The Nice Show" CBC, in which he wrote, produced and starred. Finding his niche, Mr. Gray, for the past fifteen years, with his own company and as a freelancer has produced, directed and written for Film/Television/Stage and worked with...CBS, ABC, NBC, BET, USA, The FAMILY CHANNEL, SHOWTIME, FOX and others. Presently Mr. Gray's interest is to produce independent theatrical/cable films for domestic and international markets. To this end, Mr. Gray has recently formed Graysphere Entertainment Group, in which his primary purpose will be to develop, produce, and market film work, which are of the very highest caliber, brilliance, at the same time maintaining acumen of the marketplace and fiscal actualities.- Actor
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Bruce Weitz was born on 27 May 1943 in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hill Street Blues (1981), Half Past Dead (2002) and Deep Impact (1998). He has been married to Vivian Davis since 2 December 1986. They have one child. He was previously married to Cecilia Hart.- Actor
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Joris Jarsky was born on 3 December 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for God's Country (2022), The Little Things (2021) and East of Middle West (2021).- Actress
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Patricia Belcher was born on 7 April 1954 in Helena, Montana, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Jeepers Creepers (2001), Flatliners (1990) and 500 Days of Summer (2009).- Alex Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois but proud to be raised in Pembroke Township, and is a lifelong die hard Cubs fan. Alex is proud to have been nominated for an Emmy Award nomination for his iconic role as Ken in the cult hit TV Series 'Baskets' with the great Louie Anderson and Zach Galifianakis. He was also loved as Trey in the long running TV Series 'Malcolm in the Middle'. Fans are loving Alex Morris in his current Netflix TV Series, 'The Family Business'. Alex is a die hard Thespian, proudly gracing the stage with the likes of Vanessa Redgrave and Roscoe Lee Brown, and has appeared in theaters all over the world. He is a 5 time NAACP Image Award winner, an Ovations Theater award winner, and 2 time LA Theater Critics Award recipient for Best Actor in Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons' and for August Wilson's 'Radio Golf'. Alex is a company member of A Noise Within Theater in Los Angeles.
- A gifted veteran character actress, Starletta DuPois has breathed life into a bevy of unforgettable roles both onstage and onscreen. Starletta is recognized from her roles in many cult classics including Friday After Next with Ice Cube and Mike Epps, Big Momma's House with Martin Lawrence, and Oliver Stone's South Central. She was recently seen in the faith based film Mosaic, the inspirational drama Boarding House, and the screen adaptation of the popular book True To The Game. She will next be seen in the film, Magic Max playing Mrs. Chambers.
Throughout her illustrious career she has shared the screen with many gifted luminaries such as James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Jack Nicholson, Lou Gossett Jr. Robert Duvall, Steve Harvey, Gena Rowlands, Marla Gibbs, Denzel Washington and the late James Garner. However millions around the world still remember her playing the late Whitney Houston's mother in Waiting To Exhale. On television her resume is equally as impressive. Small screen highlights include: Lost, Cold Case, Any Day Now, Strapped, The Carmichael Show, The Rich & The Ruthless, and the Lifetime movie Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland where she played Jackson family matriarch Katherine Jackson.
Her theater roots run deep and have garnered her numerous recognitions starting with her Tony Nomination for The Mighty Gents and a NAACP Theater Award nomination for Miss Evers Boys at the Mark Taper Forum. She has also done a ton of regional theater including Intimate Apparel, King Hedley II, and Before It Hits Home at St Louis Black Rep where she received The Woodie Award, named for her theatrical mentor and dear friend Woodie King Jr. She also has the distinction of originating the role of Bernice in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson directed by Lloyd Richards.
Another unique and remarkable feat is that fact that she has played all three female characters in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun. Not only did she receive an NAACP Image Award for her portrayal of Ruth Younger in the landmark PBS American Playhouse production opposite Danny Glover, she was awarded Best Actress award for playing Lena Younger at the Royal Exchange in London, England. Her work has also been lauded by the Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival which gave her their Eternity Award, and is the recipient of not one but two Living Legend Awards: one from The Giving Back Corporation and the second from the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
A Philadelphia native, Starletta holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and an MFA from UCLA in Theater Arts where she graduated magna cum laude. A lifelong philanthropist she has a passion for mentoring aspiring artists, Starletta has proudly served as an adjunct professor at USC. This unstoppable talent has successfully toured the solo play Order My Steps and is hard at work on her autobiographical solo play which will be premiering onstage in the very near future.
Starletta lives in Los Angeles, California and is the proud mother of an incredible young musician named Deandre. - Susan Beaubian was born on 7 September 1951 in the USA. She is an actress, known for American Crime Story (2016), Norbit (2007) and Numb3rs (2005).
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Vernee Watson was born on 28 September 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Christmas with the Kranks (2004), The Kid (2000) and General Hospital (1963). She was previously married to Van Johnson and Joe Duckett.- Actress
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Alexandra is originally from Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. Alexandra moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting when she was 17. She graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a dual degree in Drama and Psychology and studied at the Stella Adler Studio. After graduating from NYU, Alexandra performed in Off-Broadway and Regional Theatre, studied with Joseph Chaikin in his final master classes in NYC, and continued her classical theatre training with Patsy Rodenburg from The National Theatre in London.- Actress
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Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates. Kathy has English, as well as Irish, Scottish, and German, ancestry, and one of her ancestors, an Irish emigrant to New Orleans, once served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor.
Kathy discovered acting appearing in high school plays and studied drama at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1969. With her mind firmly set, she moved to New York City in 1970 and paid her dues by working everything from a cash register to taking lunch orders. Things started moving quickly up the ladder after giving a tour-de-force performance alongside Christopher Walken at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre in Lanford Wilson's world premiere of "Lemon Sky" in 1970, but she also had a foreshadowing of the heartbreak to come after the successful show relocated to New York's off-Broadway Playhouse Theatre without her and Walken wound up winning a Drama Desk award.
By the mid-to-late 1970s, Kathy was treading the boards frequently as a rising young actress of the New York and regional theater scene. She appeared in "Casserole" and "A Quality of Mercy" (both 1975) before earning exceptional reviews for her role of Joanne in "Vanities". She took her first Broadway curtain call in 1980's "Goodbye Fidel," which lasted only six performances. She then went directly into replacement mode when she joined the cast of the already-established and highly successful "Fifth of July" in 1981.
Kathy made a false start in films with Taking Off (1971), in which she was billed as "Bobo Bates". She didn't film again until Straight Time (1978), starring Dustin Hoffman, and that part was not substantial enough to cause a stir. Things turned hopeful, however, when Kathy and the rest of the female ensemble were given the chance to play their respective Broadway parts in the film version of Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). It was a juicy role for Kathy and film audiences finally started noticing the now 34-year-old.
Still and all, it was the New York stage that continued to earn Kathy awards and acclaim. She was pure textbook to any actor studying how to disappear into a role. Her characters ranged from free and life-affirming to downright pitiable. Despite winning a Tony Award nomination and Outer Critic's Circle Award for her stark, touchingly sad portrait of a suicidal daughter in 1983's "'night, Mother" and the Obie and Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for her powerhouse job as a romantic misfit in "Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune," Kathy had no box-office pull, however, and was never a strong consideration when the roles transferred to the screen. Her award-winning stage went to established film stars. First Sissy Spacek took over her potent role as the suicidal Jessie Cates in 'night, Mother (1986), then Michelle Pfeiffer seized the moment to play her dumpy lover character in Frankie and Johnny (1991). It would take Oscar glory to finally rectify the injustice.
It was Kathy's fanatical turn as the drab, chunky, porcine-looking psychopath Annie Wilkes, who kidnaps her favorite author (James Caan) and subjects him to a series of horrific tortures, that finally turned the tide for her in Hollywood. With the 1990 shocker Misery (1990), based on the popular Stephen King novel, Bates and Caan were box office magic. Moreover, Kathy captured the "Best Actress" Oscar and Golden Globe award, a first in that genre (horror) for that category. To add to her happiness she married Tony Campisi, also an actor, in 1991.
Quality film scripts now started coming her way and the 1990s proved to be a rich and rewarding time for her. First, she and another older "overnight" film star, fellow Oscar winner Jessica Tandy, starred together in the modern portion of the beautifully nuanced, flashback period piece Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). She then outdid herself as the detached and depressed housekeeper accused of murdering her abusive husband (David Strathairn) in Dolores Claiborne (1995). Surprisingly, she was left out of the Oscar race for these two excellent performances. Not so, however, for her flashy political advisor Libby Holden in the movie Primary Colors (1998), receiving praise and a "Best Supporting Actress" nomination.
Kathy has continued to work prolifically on TV as a 14-time Emmy winner or nominee thus far. She has also taken to directing a couple of TV-movies on the sly. As most actors, she has been in hit and miss TV shows. On the hit side, she has earned a Golden Globe and Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Jay Leno's manager playing tough politics in The Late Shift (1996) and played to the hilt the cruel-minded orphanage operator, Miss Hannigan, in Annie (1999) for which she also earned an Emmy nom. She has done some eye-catching, offbeat turns on regular series such as Six Feet Under (2001) (for which she also earned a DGA award for helming an episode), The Office (2005), Harry's Law (2011) and especially American Horror Story (2011) for which she won an Emmy as Ethel Darling. She also won an Emmy for a guest episode on the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003).
Interesting millennium filming have included a Catholic school's Mother Superior in the comic drama Bruno (2000); Jesse James' mother in American Outlaws (2001); a quirky, liberal mom in About Schmidt (2002) for which she earned another "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar nomination; a brief but potent turn as Gertrude Stein in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011); Queen Victoria in the adventurous remake of Around the World in 80 Days (2004); wacky parent types in the comedies Failure to Launch (2006) and Relative Strangers (2006); Mother Claus in the seasonal farce Fred Claus (2007); an over-gushy foster mother in the dramedy The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015); and a wrenching performance as the mother of a suspected terrorist in Richard Jewell (2019) for which she earned her third "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar nomination.
Divorced from husband Campisi since 1997, Kathy has been the Executive Committee Chair of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors.- Stunts
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Jayne Eastwood was born on 17 December 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Dawn of the Dead (2004), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016). She was previously married to David Flaherty.- Actress
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Barbara Mamabolo was born in 1986 in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), Deep Impact (1998) and Stranger (2017).- Actress
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Ellora Patnaik was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her love for acting blossomed early in life. Her first acting experience was Joseph and Mary's donkey in a nativity play in a Toronto Nursery School at the age of three. Her youth included many school plays and a considerable amount of community theatre. Then there was the dance: Ellora is the daughter of the renowned Odissi (Indian Classical Dance from the picturesque state of Utkal, or Orissa) Guru Chitralekha Patnaik and has literally more than a thousand performances to her credit. She has performed in India, Canada, the United States, and Europe and today is internationally recognized as being among the greatest Odissi dancers in the world. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and was selected for the company in her final year. Some of her favourite and more memorable experiences include the role of the troubled schizophrenic Catherine in John Olive's "Standing on my Knees", and as the hippie-child Catherine in "Say Goodnite Gracie". In Girish Karnad's "Nagamandala" she played a character who was not named Catherine, the innocent but snake-charmed Rani, who has a fantastical love-affair with a King Cobra. Her performance in Mira Nair's "My Own Country" was much lauded in the New York Times.
Aside from acting and dancing, her interests include dance, horse-back riding, swimming, bike-riding,roller-blading, and, of course, movies.- Actress
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Courtney Thorne-Smith is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, Cheryl Mabel in According to Jim and her recurring role on Two and a Half Men as Lyndsey McElroy. Thorne-Smith was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Menlo Park, a suburb south of San Francisco. Her father, Walter Smith, was a computer market researcher, and her mother, Lora Thorne, was a therapist. They divorced when Courtney was seven years old and she lived with both parents at different stages. She has an older sister, Jennifer, who is an advertising executive. She attended Menlo-Atherton High School, in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, in 1985. She also performed with the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley while attending high school.- Actress
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Kimberley Sustad was born on 27 May 1987 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Travelers (2016), Unspeakable (2019) and The Twilight Zone (2019). She has been married to Scot Sustad since 2004. They have two children.- Actress
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Marci T House was born in Chicago, the traditional, ancestral homeland of many Nations: the Three Fires Confederacy, comprising the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadmi Nations, as well as the Kiikaapoi, Peoria, Myaami, and Illiniwek/Illionois Nations. She began acting on stage at age seven, in community theater and in Chicago Park District Theater, and graduated from Louisiana Tech University and University of Illinois (Chicago) where she studied acting, architecture, and urban planning.
Professionally, Marci works in the United States, Canada, and wherever work takes her. She has studied with Diane Hardin (Young Actors Space - LA); Bill Duke (Actor's Boot Camp - Miami and LA); Michele Lonsdale Smith (Lyric School of Acting - Vancouver); Susan Batson (Black Nexxus/Susan Batson Studios - NYC); Greg Braun (New Collective Acting Studio - LA), and Christian Contreras (Black Nexxus - NYC).
Marci alternates smoothly between theatre and film/TV, and is a NAACP Theater Award (Los Angeles) and Jessie Theatre Award (Vancouver) -nominated actress and set designer.- Actress
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Jessica Marie Alba was born on April 28, 1981, in Pomona, CA, to Catherine (Jensen) and Mark David Alba, who served in the US Air Force. Her father is of Mexican descent (including Spanish and Indigenous Mexican roots), and her mother has Danish, Welsh, English, and French ancestry. Her family moved to Biloxi, MS, when she was an infant. Three years later her father's career brought the family back to California, then to Del Rio, TX, before finally settling in Southern California when Jessica was nine. In love with the idea of becoming an actress from the age of five, she was 12 before she took her first acting class. Nine months later she was signed by an agent. She studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company with founders William H. Macy and David Mamet.
A gifted young actress, Jessica has played a variety of roles ranging from light comedy to gritty drama since beginning her career. She made her feature film debut in 1993 in Hollywood Pictures' comedy Camp Nowhere (1994). Originally hired for two weeks, she got her break when an actress in a principal role suddenly dropped out. Jessica cheerfully admits it wasn't her prodigious talent or charm that inspired the director to tap her to take over the part--it was her hair, which matched the original performer's. The two-week job stretched to two months, and Jessica ended the film with an impressive first credit. Two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney quickly followed before Jessica was featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role in Nickelodeon's popular comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). She played an insufferable young snob, devoted to making life miserable for the the title character, played by Larisa Oleynik. That same year, she won the role of "Maya" in Flipper (1995) and filmed the pilot for the series. She spent 1995 shooting the first season's episodes in Australia. An avid swimmer and PADI-certified SCUBA diver, Jessica was delighted to be doing a show that allowed her to play with dolphins. The show's success guaranteed it a second season, which she also starred in. Her involvement in the show lasted from 1995 to 1997.
In 1996 she appeared in Venus Rising (1995) as "Young Eve." The next year she appeared on The Dini Petty Show (1989), a Canadian talk show, and spoke about her role in "Flipper" and her general acting career. She began working on P.U.N.K.S. (1999), featuring Randy Quaid, in 1998. In early 1998 she appeared in Brooklyn South (1997) as "Melissa." That same year she was in two episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) as "Leanne" and in two episodes of Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998).
She appeared in "Teen Magazine" in 1995 and various European magazines over the following years. More importantly, she was featured in the February 1999 issue of "Vanity Fair" magazine. She also had major roles in two movies that year: Never Been Kissed (1999) and Idle Hands (1999). In 2000 she had roles in Paranoid (2000) and starred in the sci-fi TV series Dark Angel (2000), gaining worldwide recognition.
Her first starring role in a major studio film was the Honey (2003), Universal Pictures' contemporary urban drama that grossed over $60 million worldwide. She has since made over 25 feature films that have earned a combined box-office total of over $800 million, including comedies and dramas, from gritty independents to major studio blockbusters. In 2005 she starred opposite Bruce Willis and an all-star cast in the provocative and critically acclaimed Sin City (2005), directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. She next starred as Sue Storm--"The Invisible Girl"--in Marvel's action-franchise blockbuster Fantastic Four (2005), which was released by 20th Century-Fox in July 2005 and became a worldwide box-office success with over $300 million in revenue.
Jessica was part of Garry Marshall's all-star ensemble romantic comedy, Valentine's Day (2010), which broke box-office records with the largest opening on a four-day President's Day weekend in history. She starred opposite Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson in director Michael Winterbottom's controversial screen adaptation of The Killer Inside Me (2010), based on Jim Thompson's novel, as well as Robert Rodriquez's Machete (2010). She co-starred in the third installment of the hit "Meet the Parents" franchise Little Fockers (2010), as well as the 4D family adventure Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (2011), marking her third of five collaborations with Robert Rodriguez. Jessica was part of an all-star voice cast for The Weinstein Company's animated adventure, Escape from Planet Earth (2012), also featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Fraser and James Gandolfini.
She appeared in the comedy A.C.O.D. (2013), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and starred Adam Scott, Jane Lynch and Amy Poehler. She made a cameo appearance in Machete Kills (2013) and co-starred in Robert Rodriquez's highly-anticipated, star-studded sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). That year she had a full slate of acting projects, including the period drama Dear Eleanor (2016), The Englishman opposite Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek; the IFC parody mini-series The Spoils of Babylon (2014), produced by Funny or Die, with a stellar cast including Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Tobey Maguire, Michael Sheen and Tim Robbins; and Stretch (2014), co-starring Patrick Wilson, Chris Pine, Ray Liotta, Ed Helms and Brooklyn Decker.
Jessica has received Golden Globe and People's Choice Award nominations, was voted TV Guide readers' Breakout Star of the Year, and won Favorite TV Actress at the 2001 Teen Choice Awards for "Dark Angel." She won the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Female Actress for her performance in "Fantastic Four" and an MTV Movie Award for Sexiest Performance in "Sin City." She received another Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress in a Horror/Thriller for The Eye (2008) and was honored by the Young Hollywood Awards as Superstar of Tomorrow in 2005. She has received ALMA Awards for her performances in "Dark Angel" and "Machete," as well as a Fashion Icon in 2009.- Actress
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Jordan Danger (born Jordan Danielle Hinson) was born in El Paso, TX. Growing up doing local theater, she developed a passion for acting and moved out to Los Angeles at age 11. She started out starring in Disney Channel original movie Go Figure (2005) and the hit SyFy series Eureka (2006). She also started writing screenplays at the young age of 15 and has since penned many. Her other credits include A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011) and the Freeform series Kevin from Work (2015). Jordan resides in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Evgenia Dodina was born on 10 December 1964 in Belarus. She is an actress, known for One Week and a Day (2016), Killing Eve (2018) and Invisible (2011).- Actress
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Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE is a British actress. She has received a Laurence Olivier Award as well as numerous nominations including for a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama.- Actress
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Camille Cottin is a French actress and comedian. Following her debut as a stage actress, she became known in 2013 for playing a capricious Parisian woman in the Canal+ hidden camera-sketches series Connasse (2013-2015), as well as in the theatrical film based on the series The Parisian Bitch, Princess of Hearts (2015), which brought her significant mainstream success in France.- Yuli is a British/Israeli actress, who moved to London when she was 3 years old.
She loved singing and acting from a very young age. She often played main roles in school performances peaking in the year 5 when she played Macbeth.
Contrary to everyone's belief Yuli doesn't have a Russian accent when she speaks English. She has a British accent when she speaks Russian.
Yuli loves playing electric guitar and has a passion for alternative music as well as expressing herself in fashion.
Yuli's experience includes TV, theatre and audio narration. - Actress
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Dawn McMillan was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She is known for Frasier (1993), Zeus and Roxanne (1997) and The Young and the Restless (1973).- Actress
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Kathleen Quinlan was born in Pasadena, California, the only child of Josephine (Zachry), a military-supply supervisor, and Robert Quinlan, a television sports director. She grew up in Mill Valley, Ca, and got her break in acting when George Lucas came to her high school to cast for his movie American Graffiti (1973). She followed up her one-line role four years later with Lifeguard (1976), and then several roles in the late 1970s and 1980s. Her breakthrough performance came in 1977, as Deborah in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977). She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1995 for Apollo 13 (1995). She starred in the TV series Family Law (1999), but her contract stipulated that she could not work later than 6 pm, so she could be home with her husband Bruce Abbott, son [error] (b. October 17, 1990), and stepson Dalton Abbott (b. October 4, 1989). She currently works in television and film.- Actor
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Jesse Renfro is known for Most Wanted (2011) and Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002).- Director
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Dian Fossey was born on 16 January 1932 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was a director and writer, known for Gorillas in the Mist (1988), The World About Us (1967) and The American Sportsman (1965). She died on 26 December 1985 in Karisoke, Rwanda.- Andrea Lui was born on 30 December 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Category 7: The End of the World (2005), Pushing Daisies (2007) and The Genesis Code (2010).
- Deborah Tennant is known for Shazam! (2019), Being Erica (2009) and The Kid Detective (2020). She has been married to Brian Paul since 26 February 1984. They have one child.
- Angele Poulin is known for Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002) and Leap Years (2001).
- Arrow Schwartzman is known for 7 Chinese Brothers (2015).
- Ramona DuBarry has appeared on every Major TV Network including How to Get Away with Murder (ABC), Criminal Minds (CBS), Code Black (CBS) ), Scandal (ABC), Desperate Housewives (ABC), Heroes (NBC) and The Shield (FX). She was also part of America's beloved Days of Our Lives (NBC) as the tenacious Doctor Hill.
Ramona was born in New York - lived in Brooklyn. She and her family then moved to Hollywood where she studied the arts; including Dance (ballet, jazz, tap), Theatre, and Voice (Mezzo Soprano - powerhouse belt) at the National Academy School of Performing Arts (Studio City). Her expansive training prepared her for stage performances - Rock of Ages (Hollywood), Shiv (Boston Court) and toured throughout Northern America - Miss Saigon.
Her film work includes HBO's Long Gone By (dir. Andrew Morgan) with Erica Munoz. She also has appeared in Screenworld Films' Man Without a Head (dir. Jonny Roc) with Shannyn Sossomon, Halfway Home (dir. Barbara Topsoe-Rothenborg), Her and Him (dir. Eric Michael Kochmer) and Don't Try This at Home (dir. Artti Smith).
Additional TV work includes Castle (ABC), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX), State of Georgia (ABC), Private Practice (ABC) ), Dirty Sexy Money (ABC), and Numbers (CBS).
Ramona DuBarry is an ethnically diverse actress. She is based both in Los Angeles and Albuquerque, NM. - Teri Polo was born in Dover, Delaware, to Jane (Gentry) and Vincent Polo, a stereo systems designer. Her ancestry includes Italian (from her paternal grandfather), German, and English. She has two brothers, Mike and Steve. Polo studied ballet for twelve years and was a dancer for the Delaware Regional Ballet at age 15. She dropped out of high school at 16 because she won a local modeling contest for a blue jeans advert in Seventeen magazine. Polo tried her hand at modeling, and was signed to Elite petite division.
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John Bernard Larroquette, is an all-around American actor known for his roles in both drama and comedy. He became well-known as Deputy District Attorney Dan Fielding in the NBC sitcom "Night Court" (1984-1992; 2023-present), a role that earned him four straight Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. This remarkable achievement showed off his talent, demonstrating his knack for mixing serious drama with comedic flair. Larroquette's performance of Dan Fielding evolved from conservative to more humorous, reflecting his own sense of humor, which was a hit with viewers.
Apart from "Night Court," Larroquette's career is filled with impressive roles in various TV series. He won an Emmy for a guest role in "The Practice" and appeared in "The Good Fight," "The Librarians," "Boston Legal," and "Happy Family." His return to "Night Court" in the reboot sees him play again his role as Dan Fielding. However, the character has become gentler over time, suggesting personal growth and struggles, including a reference to a past marriage and a shift from practicing law to working as a process server. This comeback in the reboot adds a new layer to his famous role, mixing fond memories with fresh storytelling.- Actor
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Larry Gelman was born on 3 November 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Dreamscape (1984) and Tales from the Catholic Church of Elvis! (2009). He was married to Trudy Moss and Barbara Gelman. He died on 7 June 2021 in the USA.- Actress
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Samantha Smith was born in Sacramento, California, USA. She is an actress and talent agent, known for Supernatural (2005), Transformers (2007) and Friends (1994). She has been married to Cory since 2008. They have one child.- Actress
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Michele Greene is a bi-lingual American actress, writer and singer. She was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and moved to Los Angeles when she was an infant after the untimely death of her father. The family moved in with her maternal grandparents, Carmen and Arturo. Michele grew up in a bi-lingual household, rich in Mexican and Central American traditions. She attended Fairfax High School and USC, receiving a BFA in Theatre. She studied under Duncan Ross, James Wilson, Kate Fitzmaurice, Louis Fantasia, Peggy Feury among others. She studied voice with Ron Manuel-Ellison, Robert Edwards. She has appeared in numerous television series and was a regular cast member of the groundbreaking NBC series, L.A. Law, for which she received an Emmy nomination for her role as Abigail Perkins. She has starred in many cable and television movies as well as theatre productions in Los Angeles and Canada. She was a founding member of the band, Sangre Sabia, and has recorded two critically acclaimed CDS, Ojo DE Tiburon and Luna Roja for Appleseed Recordings. She is the author of two young adult books, Chasing the Jaguar (Harper Collins) and Keep Sweet (Simon and Schuster), both of which are in development for television. She is the Artistic Director of Adelante Arts Collective, a performing arts program that works with under-served communities and at-risk youth. She is an avid swimmer, equestrian, skier and mountain hiker.- Brook Kerr was born on 21 November 1973 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Passions (1999), True Blood (2008) and Prank (2000). She was previously married to Christopher Warren.
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In the late 1960s, Charlie attended, and was enrolled in, Studio 7, an acting school operated by Chris Wilson at the Houston Music Theatre. He stayed with Chris when the school was moved to another location in Southwest Houston where mainly children's theater was presented. Charlie was cast in a made-for-TV production and soon moved to the Hollywood area where his career took off.- Actress
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Joanna Going was born in Washington, D.C. in 1963 and raised in Newport, Rhode Island. She is the oldest of six children and graduated from Rogers High School in 1981. She attended Emerson College in Boston for two years and then went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. A year later, she made her television debut on the soap, Search for Tomorrow (1951) playing ingenue Evie Stone. Joanna Going went on to another soap, Another World (1964), playing the part of Lisa Grady for two years.- Actress
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Amanda Foreman was born on 15 July 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (2009), Forever Young (1992) and Inland Empire (2006).- Actress
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Actress Josie Davis stars in director Drew Water's hilarious Christmas comedy, Festival of Trees, out this holiday season.Also set to release this year is her role as evil government astrophysicist, Dr Barboux, opposite James Remar, in the comedy Glowzies in which she and Remar were nominated at the Houston Film Festival. The movie premiered at the respected Sitges Film Festival, in Spain. She also has a watchable podcast on You Tube and can be heard on Apple, Spotify etc but you can watch clips from it on her Instagram page - @JosieDavis. Updates for her career are also found there.
A Hollywood, California native, Josie Davis began her career at the age of three years old. She starred in numerous television commercials, and as just a child, she was cast as a series regular, on the hit television show, Charles In Charge, rated number-one in syndication. Josie received three nominations for her performance on the series and also won the respected Youth In Film Award for her role as the adorable, shy and bookish, Sarah Powell.
Josie was the youngest student to study with respected acting teacher from Brooklyn, Paul E Richards, for twenty years until his passing. He had been referred to as Lee Strasberg's "right hand man."
At the age of twenty four, Davis auditioned in front of Hollywood heavyweights, Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, Shelley Winters, and Barbara Bain. After only one audition Davis was accepted into the legendary Actors Studio as a "Member with working privileges", then was made a Lifetime Member after only one callback. Over one thousand actors auditioned, making Davis only one of two actors to be accepted that year.
After wanting to focus on film, Academy Award winning director Mark Rydell told Josie even though she wanted to be thought of as a film actor she should be proud to be a new series regular on the last season of the iconic television series, Beverly Hills 90210. After the series ended, legendary Aaron Spelling cast Josie again as a series regular on his next show for NBC called, Titans, until it's final run.
Josie 's additional series credits include: a recurring role on CSI: NY with Gary Sinese, the fan favorite Christmas episode of Two and a Half Men that USA Today called "A must see". Comedy King, Chuck Lorre and the ex President of Warner Brothers, Peter Roth, told Davis she should've been nominated for an emmy as Sandy, the multiple personality cook. Lorre said, "I couldn't imagine anyone else playing that part". Davis' other television credits include: CSI: Miami, Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, Rules of Engagment with David Spade, The Mentalist, and the list goes on and on. Josie was cast opposite Ed O'Neil and Jennifer Love Hewitt in the television comedy, In the Game, playing a diva sports reporter which guest starred Tom Brady, for ABC.
In 2011, Martin Landau and Mark Rydell cast Josie in the stage production out of The Actors Studio - David Mamet's Speed the Plow where her performance extremely well-received.
Josie took a break from television to focus on films. First up was Wizardream, playing the British Evil Queen, opposite Malcolm Mc Dowell. Nicolas Cage cast Josie in his directorial debut, Sonny, opposite James Franco with the late Harry Dean Stanton. Josie has played the lead in numerous independent films as well as Lifetime movies, which earned her Lifetime Movie Network's Lifetime Achievement award as well as one for her lead role in Backstabbed, both voted entirely by Lifetime fans.
Josie is writing her Memoir, which will take years to complete. She is involved in a variety of animal charities, but has especially loved her anonymous volunteer work at the South Los Angeles Animal Shelter where she adopted her two cats- Born in New York, she was the daughter of acclaimed French-born stage and screen director Bretaigne Windust (1906-1960) and his actress wife Irene (1921-1999). Penelope completed her drama training at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech (later to become Carnegie Mellon University). She made her Broadway debut in 1967 at New York's American National Theatre in Herman Shumlin's play Spofford, based on the novel Reuben, Reuben (subsequently filmed, starring Tom Conti). In 1972, Penelope headlined in the title role of Elizabeth I at the Lyceum Theatre, was nominated for a Tony Award and offered a season at the Old Globe in San Diego. Her later theatrical credits included roles in The Elephant Man and The Lion in Winter at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in 1983 and appearances at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
A relative latecomer to the screen in 1975, Penelope worked primarily in episodic television as a supporting actress. She is perhaps best remembered as botanist Kathleen Maxwell who ends up joining the Resistance in the original science fiction miniseries V (1983). Her gallery of characters has included a bevy of murder suspects (Mannix (1967), Ellery Queen (1975), Matlock (1986)), murder victims (Nero Wolfe (1981), Criminal Minds (2005)) and assorted doctors/scientists (Hawaii Five-O (1968), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Wonder Woman (1975), Falcon Crest (1981)). In one of her infrequent motion picture appearances (Ghost Town (1988)) she played a saloon proprietress.
Penelope Windust was married between 1969 and 1984 to the actor Charles Haid with whom she had two daughters. - Actress
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Karis Campbell was born on 24 May 1976 in Hong Kong. She is an actress and director, known for The West Wing (1999), Tomorrow (2019) and Boston Public (2000). She has been married to Matt Buckler since 7 May 2006. They have two children.- Actor
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Garrett M. Brown was born on 7 November 1948 in the USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Good Trouble (2019), Uncle Buck (1989) and Kick-Ass (2010).- Eric Pierpoint is noted for the Alien Nation (1989) television series, Liar Liar (1997), The World's Fastest Indian (2005), Forever Young (1992), Holes (2003), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and Sex Tax: Based on a True Story (2010). He starred in TV series Hot Pursuit (1984), Fame (1982), and Farmed And Dangerous. He recurred on Parks And Recreation, Big Love (2006), Hart Of Dixie, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Hill Street Blues (1981). Theater productions include The Lion In Winter, A Streetcar Named Desire, Richard III, MacBeth, A Man For All Seasons, and Panache. He is the son of former CBS White House reporter, Robert Pierpoint. He graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1969, received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands in 1973, and his MFA from The Catholic University of America. His children's novel, The Last Ride Of Caleb O'Toole, received the 2013 Reading the West Book Award.
- Time Winters was born in Lebanon, Oregon, USA. He is an actor, known for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015), Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014) and Sneakers (1992). He has been married to Tracy Winters since 5 January 2002.
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Born in Bristol, England, Veronica is the older sister of the popular child actress Angela Cartwright. In her early career, Veronica was cast in a number of popular movies such as William Wyler's The Children's Hour (1961), Spencer's Mountain (1963) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). As such, she was cast as "Jemima Boone" in the popular television series Daniel Boone (1964), which ran from 1964 to 66. Her career after "Daniel Boone" may have been influenced by Hitchcock, since she appeared in both the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and the horror classic Alien (1979). On television, she appeared twice as Lumpy's younger sister, "Violet Rutherford" and once as "Peggy MacIntosh" on Leave It to Beaver (1957) and had a small role in the television movie Still the Beaver (1983).
Cartwright also appeared in Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985), Tanner '88 (1988) and had a recurring role on L.A. Law (1986). Her big screen features included The Right Stuff (1983), Flight of the Navigator (1986) and The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Veronica worked on the stage in "Electra", "Talley's Folly", "Homesteaders", "Butterflies are Free" and "The Triplet Connection". Alternating between television and big screen movies in the 90s, Cartwright has appeared in such films as Hitler's Daughter (1990) and Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995).- Rose is known for Lady and the Tramp (2019).
- Monte is known for Lady and the Tramp (2019).
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Alison Sweeney was born on 19 September 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery (2015) and Open by Christmas (2021). She has been married to David Alan Sanov since 8 July 2000. They have two children.- Actress
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She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban trio who - at least to baby boomers in the 60s - represented a more anti-authoritarian point of view. As a police drama with a difference, Mod Squad (1968) was a counterculture trend-setter which addressed previously neglected (or taboo) issues such as the Vietnam War, child abuse, police brutality, racism and drugs. Along with Star Trek (1966), I Spy (1965), Mannix (1967) and Mission: Impossible (1966), it was also among the first shows to feature an interracial cast.
Peggy Lipton was born into a well-to-do upper middle-class family of Russian-Jewish ancestry. Her father was a corporate lawyer, her mother an artist. Her upbringing was strict, her childhood lonely. According to her co-authored autobiography "Breathing Out", she was abused by an uncle. An introverted child of self-confessed 'morbid and gloomy' disposition, she became prone to a debilitating nervous stutter which began to disappear when she left home and struck out on her own at the age of 15. With her dad's assistance she obtained her first job as a model for the Eileen Ford agency in New York. Her mother then prompted her to take drama classes with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof studio in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. At age 19, Lipton got her first gigs on TV, mostly small guest spots, albeit in popular cult shows like Bewitched (1964), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) and The Invaders (1967). She also co-starred (opposite a very young Kurt Russell) in Disney's Mosby's Marauders (1967), set during the Civil War. In between acting, Lipton enjoyed a brief, but moderately successful, singing career. Three of her singles made it to the Billboard charts. At the same time, her private life was punctuated by unhappy or abusive romantic dalliances and experimentation with drugs, including cocaine and peyote.
In 1968, Lipton's career as a TV star was properly inaugurated with Mod Squad. Success led to four Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award in 1971. Four years into the show she was asked by an interviewer whether she was bored with her character. She replied: "Creatively I'm bored, yes, but I'm certainly not bored with the success of it, not at all. I know what I'm doing isn't 'Medea,' or even necessarily very good TV, but it's exciting to be famous".
Fame might have been exciting, but there was a flipside. After five years of Mod Squad ("we were always working"), she was burnt out. Uncomfortable with attention from the press, Lipton became more and more withdrawn and insecure. Her subsequent marriage to music legend Quincy Jones (1974-1989) settled her down to raising a family but also led to a lengthy hiatus from acting. However, in 1988, somewhat rehabilitated from a miasma of personal problems, she made her screen comeback and a year later co-starred opposite Charles Bronson in the tough action thriller Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989). Her most high profile role during the following years was that of Norma Jennings, proprietor of the Double R Diner, in David Lynch's bizarre supernatural drama Twin Peaks (1990) (a role she reprised in a later cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), as well as in the 2017 re-launch). Other sporadic appearances included a role as an antagonist in J.J. Abrams's spy series Alias (2001).
Peggy Lipton was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. The disease eventually claimed her life on May 11 2019 at the age of 72. She left two daughters from her marriage to Quincy Jones, Rashida and Kidada, who have also become actresses.- Actress
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Susie Essman was born on 31 May 1955 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), Bolt (2008) and Cop Out (2010). She has been married to Jim Harder since 13 September 2008.- Actor
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Jason Gray-Stanford was born on 19 May 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor, known for Monk (2002), A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). He was previously married to Jes Macallan.- Banjo the Dog is known for Space Munchies (2024) and Banjo (1947).
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Rando was born in West Germany. He is known for K-9 (1989) and K-9 (1991).- Additional Crew
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Karl Lewis Miller was born on 16 June 1941 in Utica, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Nutty Professor (1996), Stand by Me (1986) and Miller's Crossing (1990). He died on 27 March 2008 in Arleta, California, USA.