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Matthew Staton Bomer was born in Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, to Elizabeth Macy (Staton) and John O'Neill Bomer IV, a Dallas Cowboys draft pick. Matt was raised in Spring, Texas, and educated at Klein High School, near Houston. After school, he attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Bomer then relocated to New York to forge a career in acting.
Theater work followed, but his television break came with a small part in All My Children (1970). This lead to a reoccurring role in Guiding Light (1952) as murderous Ben Reade. Further success in TV followed including parts in Tru Calling (2003), Chuck (2007) and the lead role in Traveler (2007). Bomer also scored film roles in projects such as Flightplan (2005) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006). In 2009, he was cast in the lead role of criminal mastermind Neal Caffrey in Fox's White Collar (2009).- Riley Emilia Voelkel was born in Elk Grove, California, Riley Voelkel's family moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada when she was a child and she grew up in Sacramento, California. As a youth she was heavily involved in athletics, her family and schoolwork.
Riley was discovered during a modeling audition and she lost no time in taking advantage of that opportunity. She moved to Los Angeles and threw herself into the acting world. With her natural talent for the arts it did not take long before she was booking commercials and acting full time.
Her first acting role was as a club girl in the Oscar nominated film The Social Network, directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. From there Riley's career took off and she quickly booked roles in such hit series as The Mentalist, Glee, and American Horror Story.
She worked once again with Aaron Sorkin when she was cast as student turned assistant Jenna Johnson in HBO's award-winning The Newsroom opposite Jeff Daniels. More roles followed culminating in perhaps her best-known role to date, Freya Mikaelson in CW's The Vampire Diaries spin-off, The Originals. Voelkel played Freya for four seasons (2014 to 2018) and reclaimed her role when she guest-starred on the second season of Legacies.
Voelkel was then cast in the recurring role of Jenna Cameron in CW's science fiction drama series, Roswell, New Mexico. From there she has taken on her most challenging role yet in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced Starz series Hightown, that of Renee Segna, former exotic dancer and fiancé to a drug kingpin. - Actress
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Denise Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the older of two daughters of Joni Lee, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. She has German, French-Canadian, Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to Oceanside, CA when Denise was 15. She began working as a model, and moved to L.A. after she graduated from high school. She landed parts in both TV and movies, and gave breakthrough performances in Starship Troopers (1997) with Casper Van Dien, Wild Things (1998) and The World Is Not Enough (1999), in which she plays a Bond Girl. She also was in Undercover Brother (2002) with Eddie Griffin and appeared in Scary Movie 3 (2003) with her now ex-husband, Charlie Sheen.- Actor
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Seann William Scott was born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, to Patricia Anne (Simons) and William Frank Scott, a factory worker. He was discovered at a talent competition in Los Angeles, and almost immediately was flown to New York by ABC to test for All My Children (1970). His face has also been seen from his basketball-playing appearance on a national Sunny Delight commercial and the recent American Express campaign with Magic Johnson.
Seann was also seen on Something So Right (1996) for ABC. Seann shot a lead role in Aerosmith's music video, "Hole in My Soul" from the "Nine Lives" CD. Previously, Seann has worked with Mark-Paul Gosselaar (of Saved by the Bell (1989)) and Talia Shire (Rocky (1976)) on the NBC movie of the week, Born Into Exile (1997), and has had a recurring role in the Warner Brothers TV series, Unhappily Ever After (1995), as well as appearing on Sweet Valley High (1994).- Actor
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He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular culture.
McQueen was born in Beech Grove, Indiana, to mother Julian (Crawford) and father William Terence McQueen, a stunt pilot. His first lead role was in the low-budget sci-fi film The Blob (1958), quickly followed by roles in The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) and Never So Few (1959). The young McQueen appeared as Vin, alongside Yul Brynner, in the star-laden The Magnificent Seven (1960) and effectively hijacked the lead from the bigger star by ensuring he was nearly always doing something in every shot he and Brynner were in together, such as adjusting his hat or gun belt. He next scored with audiences with two interesting performances, first in the World War II drama Hell Is for Heroes (1962) and then in The War Lover (1962). Riding a wave of popularity, McQueen delivered another crowd pleaser as Hilts, the Cooler King, in the knockout World War II P.O.W. film The Great Escape (1963), featuring his famous leap over the barbed wire on a motorcycle while being pursued by Nazi troops (in fact, however, the stunt was actually performed by his good friend, stunt rider Bud Ekins).
McQueen next appeared in several films of mixed quality, including Soldier in the Rain (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) and Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965). However, they failed to really grab audience attention, but his role as Eric Stoner in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), alongside screen legend Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden, had movie fans filling theaters again to see the ice-cool McQueen they loved. He was back in another Western, Nevada Smith (1966), again with Malden, and then he gave what many consider to be his finest dramatic performance as loner US Navy sailor Jake Holman in the superb The Sand Pebbles (1966). McQueen was genuine hot property and next appeared with Faye Dunaway in the provocative crime drama The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), next in what many consider his signature role, that of a maverick, taciturn detective in the mega-hit Bullitt (1968), renowned for its famous chase sequence through San Francisco between McQueen's Ford Mustang GT and the killer's black Dodge Charger.
Interestingly, McQueen's next role was a total departure from the action genre, as he played Southerner Boon Hogganbeck in the family-oriented The Reivers (1969), based on the popular William Faulkner novel. Not surprisingly, the film didn't go over particularly well with audiences, even though it was an entertaining and well made production, and McQueen showed an interesting comedic side of his acting talents. He returned to more familiar territory, with the race film Le Mans (1971), a rather self-indulgent exercise, and its slow plot line contributed to its rather poor performance in theaters. It was not until many years later that it became something of a cult film, primarily because of the footage of Porsche 917s roaring around race tracks in France. McQueen then teamed up with maverick Hollywood director Sam Peckinpah to star in the modern Western Junior Bonner (1972), about a family of rodeo riders, and again with Peckinpah as bank robber Doc McCoy in the violent The Getaway (1972). Both did good business at the box office. McQueen's next role was a refreshing surprise and Papillon (1973), based on the Henri Charrière novel of the same name, was well received by fans and critics alike. He played a convict on a French penal colony in South America who persists in trying to escape from his captors and feels their wrath when his attempts fail.
The 1970s is a decade remembered for a slew of "disaster" movies and McQueen starred in arguably the biggest of the time, The Towering Inferno (1974). He shared equal top billing with Paul Newman and an impressive line-up of co-stars including Fred Astaire, Robert Vaughn and Faye Dunaway. McQueen does not appear until roughly halfway into the film as San Francisco fire chief Mike O'Halloran, battling to extinguish an inferno in a 138-story skyscraper. The film was a monster hit and set the benchmark for other disaster movies that followed. However, it was McQueen's last film role for several years. After a four-year hiatus he surprised fans, and was almost unrecognizable under long hair and a beard, as a rabble-rousing early environmentalist in An Enemy of the People (1978), based on the Henrik Ibsen play.
McQueen's last two film performances were in the unusual Western Tom Horn (1980), then he portrayed real-life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa' Thorson (Ralph Thorson) in The Hunter (1980). In 1978, McQueen developed a persistent cough that would not go away. He quit smoking cigarettes and underwent antibiotic treatments without improvement. Shortness of breath grew more pronounced and on December 22, 1979, after he completed work on 'The Hunter', a biopsy revealed pleural mesothelioma, a rare lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure for which there is no known cure. The asbestos was thought to have been in the protective suits worn in his race car driving days, but in fact the auto racing suits McQueen wore were made of Nomex, a DuPont fire-resistant aramid fiber that contains no asbestos. McQueen later gave a medical interview in which he believed that asbestos used in movie sound stage insulation and race-drivers' protective suits and helmets could have been involved, but he thought it more likely that his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging from pipes aboard a troop ship while in the US Marines.
By February 1980, there was evidence of widespread metastasis. While he tried to keep the condition a secret, the National Enquirer disclosed that he had "terminal cancer" on March 11, 1980. In July, McQueen traveled to Rosarito Beach, Mexico for an unconventional treatment after American doctors told him they could do nothing to prolong his life. Controversy arose over McQueen's Mexican trip, because McQueen sought a non-traditional cancer treatment called the Gerson Therapy that used coffee enemas, frequent washing with shampoos, daily injections of fluid containing live cells from cows and sheep, massage and laetrile, a supposedly "natural" anti-cancer drug available in Mexico, but not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. McQueen paid for these unconventional medical treatments by himself in cash payments which was said to have cost an upwards of $40,000 per month during his three-month stay in Mexico. McQueen was treated by William Donald Kelley, whose only medical license had been (until revoked in 1976) for orthodontics.
McQueen returned to the United States in early October 1980. Despite metastasis of the cancer through McQueen's body, Kelley publicly announced that McQueen would be completely cured and return to normal life. McQueen's condition soon worsened and "huge" tumors developed in his abdomen. In late October, McQueen flew to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico to have an abdominal tumor on his liver (weighing around five pounds) removed, despite warnings from his American doctors that the tumor was inoperable and his heart could not withstand the surgery. McQueen checked into a Juarez clinic under the alias "Sam Shepard" where the local Mexican doctors and staff at the small, low-income clinic were unaware of his actual identity.
Steve McQueen passed away on November 7, 1980, at age 50 after the cancer surgery which was said to be successful. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea. He married three times and had a lifelong love of motor racing, once remarking, "Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.".- Actress
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Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24, 1965 in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby (Hammer) and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. She has two older brothers. Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.
Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. That did not stop her from acting in a children's theater company at age seven; she was Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz". Her deafness never held her back. As an adult, she said it so eloquently: "I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally." Marlee studied criminal justice at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, and maintained her passion for acting after graduating. While performing on stage through Chicago and the Midwest, Marlee attracted notice for her performance in a production of the Tony Award-winning play "Children of a Lesser God" and was cast in the movie version Children of a Lesser God (1986). Although this was her movie debut, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. While shooting her next movie Walker (1987), in Nicaragua, large-hearted Marlee took time to visit both hearing and hearing-impaired children. She continued this tradition of visiting local children through her travels to Germany, England, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Canada, etc.
Her interest in the criminal justice field played a role in her on screen career; she portrayed an assistant D.A. on the television series Reasonable Doubts (1991), while off screen she married police officer Kevin Grandalski on August 29, 1993. The couple has four children: Sarah (born 1996), Brandon (born 2000), Tyler (born 2002), and Isabelle (born 2003). In 1994, Marlee was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance as Laurie Bey on the television series Picket Fences (1992). Marlee is also a spokeswoman for the National Captioning Institute. In 1995, she testified at a congressional hearing and helped get a law passed that requires all television sets 13 inches or larger to be manufactured with built-in chips to provide closed captioning on their screens; this was a godsend for deaf viewers.
Marlee serves as the national spokeswoman for the largest provider of television closed captioning, and has spoken on behalf of CC in countries such as Australia, England, France and Italy. She also serves on the boards of a number of charitable organizations, including Very Special Arts, the Starlight Foundation, and other charities that primarily benefit children. As someone who loves children so much, it is only fitting that she has four of her own. Professionally, Marlee has even tried producing, being the executive producer for Where the Truth Lies (1999).- Actor
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Dean Jagger was born in Lima, Ohio, on November 7, 1903. He dropped out of high school twice before finally graduating from Wabash College. Working first as a school teacher, he soon became interested in acting and enrolled at Chicago's "Lyceum Art Conservatory". Mr. Jagger made his first movie and only silent film, The Woman from Hell (1929) in 1929, starring Mary Astor. During 1929 he also appeared in the film Handcuffed (1929). He quickly found his niche as a character actor and the highlight of his career was winning an Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor," in the 1949 movie Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Dean played Principal Albert Vane on TV for the 1963-1964 season of Mr. Novak (1963). Dean Jagger died in Santa Monica, California, on February 5, 1991.- Actor
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Josh Randall was born on 27 January 1972 in Pacific Grove, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Quarry (2016), Ozark (2017) and Station 19 (2018). He was previously married to Claire Rankin.- Actor
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Bill Erwin was born on 2 December 1914 in Honey Grove, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Somewhere in Time (1980) and Home Alone (1990). He was married to Lucy Frances MacLachlan. He died on 29 December 2010 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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John Forysthe was born Jacob Lincoln Freund in Penns Grove, New Jersey, the son of Blanche Materson (Blohm) and Samuel Jeremiah Freund, a Wall Street businessman. He chose to pursue acting over the objections of his father. He did some work in radio soaps and on Broadway before signing a movie contract with Warner Bros. His early career was interrupted by World War II. During the war, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps appearing in the Air Corps show "Winged Victory". After the war, he helped found the Actors Studio. He has had the most success on television, with healthy runs on Bachelor Father (1957), Dynasty (1981) and as the unseen voice of Charlie Townsend on Charlie's Angels (1976). John Forsythe died at age 92 of complications from pneumonia on April 1, 2010 in Santa Ynez, California.- Barbara Stock was born on 26 May 1956 in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Spenser: For Hire (1985), Dallas (1978) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). She has been married to William G. Dunn since April 1988. They have one child.
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Dallas Reid was born on 5 April 1993 in Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Black Clover (2017), To Dust (2014) and Psycho-Pass (2012). He is married to Jill Harris.- Actor
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Aaron Himelstein was born on 10 October 1985 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) and Sugar Mountain (2005).- Actor
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Ulysses Morazan was born on 15 October 1989 in Elk Grove, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hacks (2021), This Is Us (2016) and Not Dead Yet (2023).- Writer
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James D. Rolfe is an American video game and film reviewer, filmmaker and YouTuber from Philadelphia. He started The Angry Video Game Nerd, a seminal video game reviewing series in 2004, which eventually became part of his YouTube channel. He is considered one of the most influential reviewers of all time. He is married to his wife April and had two daughters.- Ronald Lyle Goldman was born to Sharon and Fred Goldman on July 2nd, 1968. He grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. He had a younger sister named Kim Goldman. When Ron was six, his parents divorced, and his father was granted custody. This led to a very distant relationship between Ron and Kim, and their mother. Ron attended the University of Illinois for one semester.
When Ron was eighteen, Fred remarried to a woman named Patti Glass, who had three children of her own. The family moved to Los Angeles, California. Ron attended Pierce College again, for one semester. He then became employed as a waiter at different LA-area restaurants and, eventually, at the Italian restaurant Mezzaluna.
He was a friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, and said that the biggest rush of his life was being allowed to drive her Ferrari. On June 12, 1994, he went to Nicole's condo to return a pair of glasses her mother had left at Mezzaluna. According to police re-creations, he arrived during or after Nicole being attacked, and tried to protect her, only to be cut down himself as well.
He is buried in Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California. - Music Department
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Billy Corgan was born on 17 March 1967 in Elk Grove, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Batman & Robin (1997), Stigmata (1999) and Ransom (1996). He has been married to Chloe Mendel since 16 September 2023. They have two children. He was previously married to Christine Fabian.- Costume Designer
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Marianna Elliott was born on 23 June 1930 in China Grove, North Carolina, USA. She was a costume designer, known for Blue Thunder (1983), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and The Big Bus (1976). She was married to Alan Oppenheimer. She died on 21 June 2003 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Prolific character actor Don Harvey started his career playing in tent shows, repertory companies and radio with his wife Jean Harvey. While in Hollywood he starred on a radio show with Hedda Hopper. Harvey signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1949 and played in a several serials of the era: Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949) and Batman and Robin (1949). He also played in a few "B" pictures and a handful of sci-fi films. He died of a heart attack.
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Kim Goldman was born on 26 December 1971 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA. She is a producer, known for His Name Is Ron, Confronting (2019) and OJ25 (2020). She was previously married to Michael Hahn.- Actress
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Amanda Lepore was born on 21 November 1967 in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! (2008), Another Gay Movie (2006) and The Zanctuary (2016).- Producer
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Brittany Cherry was born on 2 May 1994 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Ed Sheeran: Thinking Out Loud (2014), Dancing with the Stars (2005) and So You Think You Can Dance (2005). She has been married to Brian Agnew since 18 September 2022.- Producer
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Michael E. Uslan was born on 15 December 1950 in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for National Treasure (2004), The Batman (2022) and Batman & Robin (1997).- Actor
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Dave Theune was born on 19 August 1976 in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for I Am Not Okay with This (2020), Never Have I Ever (2020) and Good Girls (2018).- Writer
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Kristin Hannah was born on 25 September 1960 in Garden Grove, California, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Firefly Lane (2021), The Things We Do for Love and Home Front.- Actress
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Already a talented singer and dancer as a child, Georgia matured into a beautiful Hollywood model. Aged 17, she made the cover of 'Redbook' and her face continued to be featured throughout the 1930's and 40's in fashion magazines (Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal), on calendars and in advertising. In 1941, she was signed by Warner Brothers and decorated several A-grade productions, generally in small parts and, occasionally, featuring her exquisite voice. She sang 'Should I', in the MGM musical Thousands Cheer (1943), where she met her future husband, the bandleader Kay Kyser. According to Kyser's publicist/band manager, Paul Mosher, Georgia and Kay were speeding through Nevada one night in June 1944, when they were pulled over by a state trooper. In order to avoid the bad publicity of a speeding charge, they swore that they were on their way to get married. Thus preempted, they roused a Justice of the Peace from his sleep and went on to become one of the most successful couples in show business. Georgia continued as vocalist with the Kay Kyser band, as well making appearances on television. She retired in 1951, concentrating on raising her family, collecting antiques and being active in the Chapel Hill (N.C.) historical preservation movement.- Actor
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Manila Luzon was born on 10 August 1981 in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Manila Luzon: Hot Couture (2012), General Hospital (1963) and Manila Luzon-Super Gay Wedding Show (2018). He has been married to Michael Alvarez since 24 December 2017.- Writer
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Jim Houck is known for "The Writer" which he wrote and directed, "Karma" and "Pinstripes on the Prairie". He is a former professional bullrider and outlaw biker, having written for motorcycle industry mags like "Easyriders" for over ten years. Jim divides his time with his family between his residences in Miami, Paris, Kansas and Slovakia.- Actress
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Martha Harms was born on 24 July 1986 in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, USA. She is an actress, known for Borderlands 2 (2012), The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (2013) and Arc (2016).- Jillian Peterson was born on 19 May 1978 in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for High Fidelity (2000), The Watcher (2000) and S.W.A.T. (2017).
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Mia was born in Coconut Grove, Florida, to a family of dancers. Her father and dance teacher, Joe Michaels, taught her jazz, tap and ballet, while her sister, Dana, taught her contemporary dance. Though she began her training with members of her family, she also trained at Miami Conservatory, the Miami Performing Arts Center and Michigan's Interlochen Arts Academy, as well as, the New World School of the Arts. Her first work experience was with her father at the Miami Dance Center, even though she began choreographing at the age of 11. She still works with her father at Joe Michaels Miami Dance Center. She has also taught dance in several schools, including the International Dance Festival of Italy, Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, and as a guest jazz teacher at the Broadway Dance Center in NYC.
She has choreographed for Madonna's "Drowned World Tour," Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Prince, DK 96, Jon Secada, PYT , and Jimmy Ray. She has also worked with Debbie Allen and Dreamworks on an AMC cable series "Cool Women."
She has choreographed a series of commercials, some award-winning, for the WNBA, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Bacardi, Coldwell Banker, Ziploc, Lady Luck Casino in Las Vegas, MTV's "Hot Properties," Star TV and VISA.
She is the founder, artistic director and choreographer of RAW (Reality At Work), a critically acclaimed New York-based dance company begun in 1997. Mia's contemporary dance company "Mia Michaels R.A.W." has performed in Seoul, Korea, the Jazz World Congress, the International Dance Festival in Amsterdam, the Gypsy Project, Jacobs Pillow, and the New York City '99 concert season. In 2001, the dance company went on a 6-week European tour.
In 2003, she was Director of Choreography for Cirque du Soleil's "Delirium." She has created commissioned-work for Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Oslo Dance Ensemble, and Rhythmek Lightbody. She's worked for the American Music Awards, Celine Dion's "A New Day" and "Taking Chances World Tour," "West Side Story" and "Hello, Dolly!" on Broadway, and off-Broadway with "If These Shoes Could Talk" and "Fort Chaffee".
Her claim to international fame came in 2005 when she became a guest judge and contemporary choreographer for the "So You Think You Can Dance" competition television series. In 2009, she abruptly left the show after the auditions in New York City. In 2010, she returned, becoming the new resident judge for the show, replacing Mary Murphy.- Actress
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Anna Slotky was born on 30 June 1981 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Home Alone (1990) and The Torkelsons (1991). She has been married to James Reitano since 30 April 2011. They have one child.- Additional Crew
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Chris Raab was born on 21 May 1980 in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and cinematographer, known for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), Borrowed Happiness (2014) and Miss December (2011). He is married to Asha Raab.- Jeremy Denzlinger was born in Groves, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Tulsa King (2022), Bromates (2022) and American Rust (2021).
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Bill Kelly was born in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, USA. He is known for Enchanted (2007), Blast from the Past (1999) and Premonition (2007).- Troy Polamalu was born on 19 April 1981 in Garden Grove, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Moana (2016), The NFL on CBS (1956) and NFL Monday Night Football (1970). He has been married to Theodora Holmes since 27 January 2005. They have two children.
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Kyler Spears was born on 5 July 1992 in Elk Grove, California, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), Amphibia (2019) and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021).- Scott was born in West Grove, Pennsylvania and grew up in Oxford, Pennsylvania. While at Oxford Area High school, he represented Pennsylvania in the All-State Choir and All-State Band (trumpet). He also played baseball, soccer and track. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music and Drama from Catawba College in Salisbury, North Caolina. While at Catawba, Scott met his wife, Pamela Harris. Their son, Taylor was born in 1987. They currently live in New York in a farmhouse (circa 1817). In addition to his acting talent, he is also a very talented singer and pianist. Scott is also a certified diver, water safety instructor, and a spinning instructor. In 2002, Scott celebrated 15 years with As The World Turns. He has played the role of Tom Hughes longer than any of the other 12 actors to have the role.
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Linda Pine was born in 1971 in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for End of Days (1999), Latter Days (2003) and Funny People (2009).- Sam Tankersley was born in Garden Grove, California, USA. Sam is an actor, known for Engaged (2022), In-House Guru (2023) and Dhar Mann (2018).
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Kurt David Anderson was raised in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. He started off his acting career by working at every major theatre in Minneapolis and St. Paul, including the famed Guthrie Theatre. His breakout role in came in 2000 when he played "Linus" in a critically acclaimed production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The four-month, sold-out run put Kurt on the list of actors to work with in Minnesota.
Despite the acclaim Kurt was receiving in his home state, he moved to Los Angeles in 2001. Even as he packed his bags, work continued to come his way, including a national commercial for Best Buy and a supporting role in the Tim Allen film, Joe Somebody.
Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Anderson immediately won roles in Disturbia, starring Shia Labeouf, Live Free or Die Hard as well as the leads in Should (which he also produced) Spill, Enlighten and the film festival, award-winning Hot Java. Kurt is best known as "Tator Junior" on Comedy Central's cult favorite, Reno 911, and has appeared on HBO's Big Love, Sons of Anarchy (FX), Castle (ABC), Gilmore Girls (WB), Veronica Mars (CW), The Suite Life (Disney), and the Golden Globe winner, Ugly Betty (ABC). Commercially, Kurt's face and personality have helped sell products for some of the biggest clients in the advertising world, including a memorable Nestle Dibs commercial.
As a company member of Parson's Nose Productions, Kurt has helped bring classical theatre to Elementary Schools throughout Los Angeles and Pasadena. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles based Theatre Neo.
Through his production company, Punching Bees Productions, Kurt has received praise for his skills at developing projects and seeing them to fruition. Anderson produced the 2009 feature film Near Fall, the short film Should, a pilot-presentation of Scott Sedita's Comedy Competition and plays such as Looking for Normal. He and his partners were invited to speak at 2008 Tribeca Film Festival about their upcoming film Near Fall and their use of new camera technology on their projects.
As an accomplished vocalist, Kurt helped found the professional a cappella group Cantus and toured with them for four years. During his time with Cantus, the group recorded three critically acclaimed CDs and toured most of the central and eastern United States.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music and Theatre from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and studies with Stuart Roger's Studios in Los Angeles.
Kurt David Anderson is repped by Amsel, Eisenstadt & Frazier and managed by Peter Kluge of Impact Artists Group, LLC.- Jennifer Widerstrom was born on 24 August 1982 in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. She is a producer, known for Pirouette (2023), American Gladiators (2008) and Why Am I So Fat? (2015).
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Bryan Charles Fugal is a producer, director, and visual effects artist. He received his MFA in film from ArtCenter College of Design (2015) where he studied directing and visual effects, and earned his bachelor's degree in film with an emphasis in Production Management from California State University, Long Beach (2012).
Bryan married Adriele Damasceno Silva in 2008. They have 3 children: Troy, Cecilia, and Ana.- Art Department
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Andrew Dickman was born on 8 October 1982 in Garden Grove, California, USA. He is known for New Looney Tunes (2015), Looney Tunes Cartoons (2019) and Longbox of the Damned (2012).- Actor
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Donald Kerr was born on 5 August 1891 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), The Devil Bat (1940) and Gang Bullets (1938). He died on 25 January 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which diminished his reputation.
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Tony Joe White reigned supreme as one of the true masters of get-down funky bluesy swamp rock music. The singer/songwriter/guitarist was born on July 23, 1943. He was the youngest of seven children who grew up on a cotton farm near Oak Grove, Louisiana. White first began performing music at school dances. Following graduation from high school Tony Joe went on to perform in night clubs in Texas and Louisiana. White went to Nashville in 1968. He had a big hit with his classic hard-stomping song "Polk Salad Annie." Tony Joe had modest country hits with "The Lady in My Life" and "We Belong Together." Brook Benton scored a substantial success with his moving and soulful rendition of White's beautiful "Rainy Night in Georgia." Among the artists who have recorded Tony Joe's songs are Dusty Springfield, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, George Jones, Hank Williams, Jr., Waylon Jennings, Jerry Reed, Jessi Colter, and Elvis Presley (the King of Rock'n'Roll sings "Polk Salad Annie" in the rock concert documentaries "Elvis on Tour" and "Elvis: That's the Way It Is").
In 1989 White wrote four songs for and played both guitar and harmonica on Tina Turner's "Foreign Affair" album. Tony Joe toured with such groups as Steppenwolf, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Sly and the Family Stone. He did jingles for McDonald's and Levi's 501 Blues jeans. White composed the scores for the made-for-TV film "Living Straight" and the musical Shakespearean rock opera "Catch My Soul" (he also played Cassio in this latter picture). A huge cult favorite in Europe, Tony Joe continued to record albums on his own Swamp Records label and performed in concerts all over the world. White died at age 75 on October 24, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.- A former collegiate All-American, Bo Eason, retired from professional football after five years as a safety with the Houston Oilers. He spend several years studying with such teachers as Roy London Stephen Strimpell Timothy Busfield Denny Albee, and Ken Lerner. Bo made his film debut in "Miami Rhapsody" (1995) and has appeared on television and numerous stage productions. He recently completed two films; one in which he has his first lead role.
- Jack Youngerman was born on 25 March 1926 in Webster Groves, Missouri, USA. He was married to Delphine Seyrig and Hilary Helfant. He died on 19 February 2020 in Stony Brook, New York, USA.
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Jelani Remy was born on 16 November 1987 in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Gone Forgotten Year (2021), The Pride of Broadway: Backstage at 'The Lion King' with Jelani Remy (2018) and Clayton Howe's Entertainmentx (2018).