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Chelsea Vanessa Peretti is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer who appeared in FOX's Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013). The show won two Golden Globe Awards in 2014 including one for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy.
Peretti starred alongside Andy Samberg, Terry Crews and Joe Lo Truglio as 'Gina Linetti,' the 99th precinct's administrator. Entertainment Weekly called Peretti one of the "buzziest breakouts" and the New York Post called her a "comedic gem, whose dry wit is unparalleled." Chelsea was nominated for Favorite Comedy Supporting Actress - Television for the 2014 American Comedy Awards and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" also received a nomination for Favorite Comedy Series. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" was nominated for a 2014 People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy and received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical. The hit series was just picked up for a eighth season.
Peretti had a recurring role as 'Farley' on the popular sketch comedy series for Comedy Central, Kroll Show (2013) and has appeared on Louie (2010) and Tosh.0 (2009) and she also plays multiple characters on Adult Swim's China, IL (2008). Peretti has been praised as one of Variety's "Top 10 Comics to Watch," Comedy Central's "Hotlist" comedians, and in Vanity Fair's 2013 "Comedy" issue. She was also recognized by TIME magazine as having one of the "140 Best Twitter Feeds" of 2013.
Peretti is also an accomplished writer, having written for Parks and Recreation (2009), Saturday Night Live (1975), The Sarah Silverman Program. (2007), Portlandia (2011) and Kroll Show (2013).
Peretti tours her stand-up at comedy clubs, theaters and festivals across the world.- Actress
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Valerie Dillman was born in Contra Costa, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Bosch (2014), The Fosters (2013) and Dexter (2006).- Actor
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Born in June of 1975 thirty or so miles east of San Francisco in Martinez, California to an artistic flower child mother and a vagabond alcoholic father that stuck around just long enough to learn what his first son had been named, Nathaniel Forrest Winters was a quiet, analytical, and well mannered child with an eye for details and a passion for performing. Around the age of six Winters and his family were introduced to Victor Salva, an ambitious 23yr old amateur filmmaker that at the time was working at a daycare. Salva quickly became a close and trusted friend to Winters and his family.
At age nine after much deliberation and protests from Salva Nathan convinced Victor to allow him the chance to audition for a part in his newest project 'Something In The Basement'. Out of nineteen young and hopeful boys, Winters won the starring role. Also, cast in this 28-minute short film was Winters 'ClownHouse' costar Brian Mchugh.
'Something In The Basement' would go on to win first place in its category at the Sony film festival in San Francisco as well as to win the attention of Hollywood elitist Francis Ford Coppola who was on the panel of judges.
With Coppola on as producer and a legitimate budget, Salva set out to write the 1989 cult classic 'ClownHouse' with Winters in mind as his lead role Casey Collins. The film would be shot on a grueling schedule in 30 days. One of the perks of working underneath Coppola's umbrella the entire film was shot with the same cameras that George Lucas used to shoot 'American Graffiti'. The downside to this was the noise made by the cameras was obnoxiously overbearing. They were so loud in fact every bit of dialogue and sound had to be dubbed over.
Just as post-production began Winters found the courage to tell his mother the truth and confirm her suspicions. Salva was arrested and charged with 11 counts of child molestation. With the financial and moral support of Coppola, he would only be convicted of the four least severe charges, including but not limited to soliciting and procuring a child under 14 for pornography. Victor Salva was sentenced 3 years for a crime that took him 6 years to commit. Of which he served a mere 15 months.
Nathan has since been a powerful voice and advocate working to promote a raised awareness towards the prevention of sexual abuse. He has said that being told at the age of 12 by Coppola that he would never work in the industry again really left a sour and bitter taste for the film industry. Winters began writing and performing music at age 15 and found his true calling.
As frontman and mastermind behind his music project 7he Seven Stone he has recently finished his first film score for his upcoming documentary '7he 6oy' due for release October 31st, 2019 directed by Connar Frazier. A powerful no punches held back survivor story that chronicles the darkness of childhood sexual abuse and his journey of healing that has led him to where he is today.- Actress
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Gabrielle Byndloss was born on 30 March 1990 in Contra Costa, California, USA. She is an actress and assistant director, known for Fantasy Island (2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and NCIS: Hawai'i (2021).- Jaclyn Kelly Shaw was born on 7 December 1992 in Contra Costa, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Shameless (2011), Last Trip Home and The Greatest Thing.
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Tammy Klein is a Multi-Hyphenate: Actress, Screenwriter, Voice Over Artist, Director, Sound Editor, Visual Effects Artist and Technical Adviser. Tammy's appeared in numerous print ads, commercials, TV shows and independent films. Because of her education, training and employment as a crime scene investigator, she's performed as Special Ability Background/Tech Adviser in numerous episodes of the television shows Law & Order: Los Angeles, Southland and Sons of Anarchy. She's the voice of Kelly in the multi-award-winning audio-drama, We're Alive, We're Alive: Goldrush, We're Alive: Descendants; and of Subcommander Nonia in the audio-drama, Henglaar, M.D., a Star Trek-based fan production. She's also English-dubbed the characters of Astrid du Tilleul in the Belgian TV drama The Break (La trêve) and Domestique Huchon in the French production, The Bonfire of Destiny (Le Bazar de la Charité ) for Netflix. Tammy has also co-written two screenplays: Trolland (2016: Dick Van Dyke and Jerry O'Connell) and Adventures of Aladdin (2019: Adam Hollick and Lucia Dimitra Xypteras). She co-directed two films with Glenn Campbell: Planet Dune starring Sean Young, and Sharkside of the Moon for Tubi.- Actress
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Ashley Mary Nunes was born on 21 November 1982 in Contra Costa, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for All Through the House (2015), Robot Combat League (2013) and Death Ward 13.- Actress
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Sarah Stouffer was born on 26 July 1986 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Bloomington (2010), Switched at Birth (2011) and A Cinderella Christmas (2016).- Vampire fans remember Danielle Sapia best as "Maudette Pickens," a girl looking for love in all the wrong places, in the first season of True Blood (2008). She had already proven to be an artist having performed at the Mark Taper Theater and appeared in several films and television shows. Her first love was softball, having been coached in her youth by her father and continuing to play through college. She graduated college with a double major in Theater Arts and Journalism. Danielle had been a long time fan of Allen Ball, having read his plays in college and later produced and acted in "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress." She was more than thrilled to work with Alan and be a part of True Blood.
As an activist for the arts and arts education, Danielle had been volunteering for organizations fighting to keep the arts in public schools. Her passion grew stronger as she became more involved, deciding to go back to school and obtain a graduate degree in Social Entrepreneurship and Change from Pepperdine University. During her studies, she traveled to Africa, working in an organization dedicated to saving children from the corrupted streets of Nairobi and teaching them the tools and skills to survive and earn a living. Danielle returned from Africa dedicated more than ever to make a difference in the lives of others. She continued doing guests appearances before deciding to follow her heart and accepted a position at an organization dedicated to cancer, diabetes, and AIDS/HIV research and treatment. - Writer
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Kirsten Smith was born on 12 August 1970 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Trinkets (2019), The House Bunny (2008) and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999).- Actress
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Flavia Watson is an actor, singer, and songwriter based between Los Angeles and Europe. She is of South American and Italian origin, and grew up between Ireland, Italy and the U.S.
Flavia is best known for her roles on Lonesome Soldier, Ghosts of Monday, MINX (HBO), All American (WB), Mrs. Davis (WB), 9-1-1 (FOX), The Mentalist (CBS), Hickey, and Shadows On The Road. She has won various awards for her acting, music and songwriting abilities including: Best Actress at the Women's International Film Festival, Independent Music Awards, John Lennon Songwriting Competition, International Songwriting Contest, Great American Song Contest and has been celebrated by Billboard, Flaunt, Ladygunn, Earmilk, Grimy Goods, WFNM, Awesomeness TV and many others. Billboard called Flavia "a musical force destined for greatness".- Cynthia Gouw was born on 30 May 1963 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989) and The Heart of Justice (1992). She has been married to Douglas A. Alexander since October 2004.
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Courtney Enea hails from the East Bay Area and currently resides in Hollywood with her hairless sphynx cat. Dramatically, she is gritty and messy, while comedically she is rather wacky. She has acted in 45 plays, several short films and five feature films, one of which she starred in. She is a best actress award winner and currently studies under Ivana Chubbuck. She has a BA in Theatre Performance from San Diego State University and has studied in New York as well. In LA she has also studied at UCB, Groundlings and Second City. She enjoys producing, writing sketches and songs, singing like Julie Andrews and Peggy Lee, rollerskating, painting...and above all, making you laugh.- Son of the late-great actor, James Cagney, James Jr. was adopted along with sister Cathleen (nickname "Casey") by the senior Cagney and wife 'Bill' in the early forties. James Jr. pre-deceased both his parents, dying of a heart attack in the early eighties. His appearance in "The Gallant Hours" as an infantryman was accompanied by a similarly brief appearance of director Robert Montgomery's son, Bob Jr.
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Michael Gans was born on 23 November 1963 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for SG (2000), Sex, Love & Secrets (2005) and Make It or Break It (2009).- Actor
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Josh Petersdorf was born on 24 May 1982 in Contra Costa, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Overwatch (2016), World of Warcraft: Legion (2016) and Godzilla: Operation - Lucky Dragon (2014).- Actress
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Janelle Froehlich was born on 16 September 1982 in Contra Costa, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012), New Girl (2011) and Training Day (2017).- Producer
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Garrett Lerner was born in Contra Costa, California, USA. Garrett is a producer and writer, known for House (2004), Ordinary Joe (2021) and Repo Men (2010).- Actor
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Selwyn Huqueriza was born on 17 May 1992 in Contra Costa, California, USA. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Stumptown (2019), Knight Squad (2018) and My Babysitter the Super Hero (2022).- Actress
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DB Cooper is a VO Supervisor at Zenimax Online Studios, and the voice of the BMW iVision Dee for the BMW Group, featured at CES 2023. With a pedigree in musical and dramatic theater, DB has been acting and directing for more than 30 years. DB was a staff commercial announcer for CBS Radio for 13 years, and has been working in video games since 2006. You've heard her in Bioshock 2, Hearthstone, DC Universe Online, and Monster Train. She casts and directs game dialogue, and is a vocal archetype, combat, and creature sound consultant.- Actress
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Stephanie Bentley was born on 2 August 1981 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Gentefied (2020), Raising Hope (2010) and Days of Our Lives (1965). She has been married to Justin Pollard since 15 September 2012. They have two children.- Stage actress with over 30 stage credits. Credits include: American Girls Revue (Molly/Kit/Kirsten: West Coast premiere), Parade (Mary Phagan: Los Angeles premiere), Bye Bye Birdie in concert (dir. Jason Alexander), Night of the Hunter (Clary: World premiere, dir. John Bowab). She is an accomplished vocalist and has won numerous vocal awards singing Broadway, Country, & Pop. She has appeared in several commercials & worked as a Ford Model. Alissa also works as a leading national teen Alzheimer's advocate.
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A graduate from the University of Texas in Austin, David is an award winning sound designer, re-recording mixer, and sound supervisor, in Los Angeles. A musician, composer, and music producer. Kyma user. Doberman owner. Work experience for Sony, Universal, Technicolor, Warner Bros, Disney, Amblin, Lionsgate, QC, Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Fuqua Films, and more....- Mario DaRe was born on 21 May 1933 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for You Bet Your Life (1950). He died on 18 April 2010 in California, USA.
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Marc Bonilla was born on 3 July 1955 in Contra Costa, California, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for The Postman (1997), Total Recall (1990) and Green Lantern (2011).- Actress
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Kelly Pantaleoni was born on 9 January 1991 in Contra Costa, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Mac & Devin Go to High School (2012), Tentacle 8 (2014) and Artful Gambit (2014).- Animation Department
Cameron Miyasaki was born on 17 August 1976 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. Cameron is known for Lightyear (2022), The Incredibles (2004) and Brave (2012).- Actress
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Katrina Morris was born on 27 May 1971 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for SuperMarket, The Position (2014) and Two Much (1995). She is married to Lonny Morris.- Philip Garrido was born on 5 April 1951 in Contra Costa County, California, USA.
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Jesse Saler was born on 5 November 1984 in Contra Costa, California, USA. He is an actor and cinematographer, known for Shameless (2011), Good Trouble (2019) and Dave (2020).- Garrett Craig was born on 17 July 1916 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Shot in the Dark (1941) and The Grass Is Always Greener (1950). He died on 1 April 1989 in Kern County, California, USA.
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Eugene Corr has broad experience in both fiction and non-fiction filmmaking. He wrote and directed the feature documentary Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (with Robert Hillmann), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award (1991). He also wrote and directed the dramatic feature film, Desert Bloom (Jon Voight, AnnaBeth Gish), Columbia Pictures, 1986 (Sélection Officielle, Cannes Film Festival).
Corr has worked as a second unit director on major motion pictures (Bull Durham, Cobb), written or co-written dramatic features (Prefontaine, Never Cry Wolf, Wildrose), and written for TV (Getting Out, MC Hammer: Too Legit). Mr. Corr has directed episodic television, including Crime Story, Miami Vice, Shannon's Deal, I'll Fly Away, Dream Street, Against the Law, and Arli$$. He directed television commercials for Chelsea Pictures, NYC, 1987-92.
From ages 17-26, Corr was a factory worker, warehouse man, forklift driver, crane operator, auto, steel, and cannery worker. He started his career in film in 1973 as a member of Cine Manifest, a radical San Francisco film group in the 1970s. A restored print of his first feature, Over-Under, Sideways-Down, screened recently at the Film Anthology Center in NYC.
His current documentary, Ghost Town to Havana (completed September, 2015) has been on the festival circuit, winning the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival Audience Award and the Syracuse International Film Festival Sophia Award and Basel Shehade Award For Social Justice.- Actor
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Pete Escovedo was born on 13 October 1935 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Jack (1996). He has been married to Juanita Gardere since 21 October 1956. They have four children.- Kristen McAtee was born on 28 March 1995 in Contra Costa, California, USA. She is an actress, known for David's Vlog (2015), The Reality House (2019) and The Carpe Life (2018).
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Jaz Adams was born on 17 December 1980 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Stepmom (1998) and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014).- Actress
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Independent recording artist, Ellise Gitas, is a dynamic singer and songwriter born and raised in San Francisco, California. She quickly gained attention on social media in 2016, after posting videos of herself singing covers of well known hits on Instagram, beginning with "Hello" by Adele and released her first single, "Dominoes", on July 7, 2016. She released her debut single, "Love Made Me Do It," in February of 2018, and since then, has garnered over 4 million streams across her Spotify as a completely independent artist. Fans naturally gravitated to Ellise's power house vocals and goofy personality. Her passion is writing and singing music that tells stories about the ugly, unpolished side of love. Through dark, twisted lyrics, hard hitting bass lines and out of the ordinary melodies, Ellise is putting a grunge twist on pop music.
At the young age of 17, Ellise graduated from high school two years early and moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional singer and recording artist. The process, however, was not an easy one. In order to graduate at the end of her sophomore year, Ellise was required to double up on classes for two years, and complete a lengthy exam which determined whether she would be able to continue on with her dream, or spend another year in high school before being able to graduate. Once she got the positive test results back over the summer, she was beyond excited to start her transition to Los Angeles.
Once in LA, Ellise decided to start posting covers on her YouTube channel in order to utilize her voice and have it out in the open for people to hear. Her first cover, "Hello" by Adele, gained immediate attention, as did her weekly covers following which included covers of Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself", Zayn Malik's "Pillow Talk", Adele's "Hello" and more. Her Youtube channel quickly began to grow, bringing her fans who loved her purely for her voice. She created her YouTube channel in November of 2015, and quickly reached over 9,000 subscribers, and is grateful for each and every one.
Since moving in October, Ellise has been solely focused on one thing: music. She began the year writing with Grammy Award Winning Producer, Chris Seefried (Lana Del Rey, Andra Day and Fitz & the Tantrums) for Uproxx & Honda Stage's "Uncharted". The duo wrote and produced her first original single, "Breakdown", which can be seen on the Uproxx website as well as sites such as Complex.com, Honda's Facebook page and more. She spent the next 6 months in the studio recording her now scrapped EP release, before releasing the first single from the EP, titled "Dominoes", in June 2016.
Following this, starting in 2018, she independently released music, releasing a string of single, each with music videos, showing her creative drive and talent, leading up to her debut extended play, "Can You Keep a Secret?" The opening track from the Halloween EP, "911", trended, become Ellise's biggest song. After this, she continued to release independently with her new darker pop sound, releasing another few singles before in October of 2019, releasing her sophomore Halloween extended play, "Under My Bed".
Through all of 2020, she spent lockdown productively working on her debut studio album, "Chaotic", releasing the first single - "Bubblegum Brain", a punchy vibrant pop song with contrastingly dark lyrics - early 2021, followed by the next single, "Feeling Something Bad...", taking a more experimental tone as Ellise (and the album's executive producer, Micah Gordon) experiment with pitched vocals and a stranger sound. It was followed by the album's last single, "Over Breakfast", an introspective sad song, stripped back to just Ellise calling for one last night with her soon-to-be-ex, accompanied by only an acoustic guitar. After this, "Chaotic" was released, with a live show to accompany it, and a deluxe edition planned, along with a video for one of the album's standout tracks, "Bruises".- Mike B. Sims was born on 25 July 1949 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bus Is Coming (1971). He died on 11 October 1989 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Cynthia Berger was born on 25 February 1920 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Police Woman (1974) and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976). She died on 22 December 1987 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Chester Clark was born on 12 December 1915 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Mutant (1984), Made in Heaven (1987) and Door to Door (1984). He died on 7 May 1987 in Contra Costa County, California, USA.
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Steven Fink started out early in pursuit of a career in the movies; inspired by classic fantasy and sci-fi films such as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and later Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). By age 10, he was making his own movies and experimenting with prosthetic makeups. Steven's professional career in special effects makeup and propmaking began at the latter part of 1986 while still attending high school as a senior. The production was a local low-budget film called Clownhouse (1989); the ill-fated suspense thriller directed by convicted child-molester Victor Salva. After that production wrapped, Steven moved onto another local production in the San Francisco bay area, the new Gumby Adventures (1988). He was able to further develop his skills as a designer, sculptor and moldmaker; working on 99 episodes for the original Gumby creator, Art Clokey. Fink eventually moved to Southern California to work for the best names in the makeup effects industry such as Rick Baker, Stan Winston, Rob Bottin, Craig Reardon, Steve Johnson and others. In the late 1990s, Steven became a regular staff member of Optic Nerve Studios and eventually effects coordinator for multiple shows, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Angel (1999). In fact, Steven shares a crew EMMY award with Optic Nerve Studios for an episode of the The X-Files (1993) in 1998 for outstanding makeup.
After enjoying a successful career spanning 17 years and over 60 movies and television shows, Steven Fink officially retired from the film industry in 2003 to pursue private projects and a family life.- David E. Gehringer was born on 6 February 1967 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Clownhouse (1989).
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Markus Potter is the Producing Artistic Director of NewYorkRep, and recently served as Interim Artistic Director of Theatre Aspen. Direction includes Stalking the Bogeyman off-Broadway at New World Stages (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, NYTimes critics pick), London's Southwark Playhouse (Off West End Award nomination for best production and direction), Red Speedo by Lucas Hnath at Center Rep (Shellie Award nomination), Lost Boy Found In Whole Foods by Tammy Ryan at The Portland Stage Company, Why You Beasting by David Don Miller (Time Out NY critic's pick), Weston Playhouse, North Carolina Stage Company, and many more. As an actor he has worked extensively with Guthrie Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Berkeley Rep, The Denver Center and The American Conservatory Theatre. As a commercial producer he was on the team that brought the Arena Theatre production of Eric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn to Broadway (Estelle Parsons's Tony Award nomination. Markus received his MFA from Columbia University, and serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas.- Kate Haefke was born on 6 November 1982 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Clownhouse (1989).
- John Bologni was born on 13 March 1941 in Contra Costa, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Wild Ride (1960).
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Alan E. Lorimer was born on 16 February 1946 in Contra Costa, California, USA. He is known for Romancing the Stone (1984), The Peacemaker (1997) and The Phantom (1996).- Jake Deanda was born on 7 July 1995 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Hip Hop Harry (2006), Fallen Angels (2006) and East Los High (2013).
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Mike Gitzen was born on 15 September 1951 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. Mike is known for Days of Our Lives (1965) and The Zodiac (2005).- Actor
Angelo Peccianti was born on 23 April 1915 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 26 December 1993 in El Dorado, California, USA.- Ron Luce was born on 11 July 1961 in Contra Costa County, California, USA.
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Lisa Ribar was born on 23 April 1987 in Contra Costa County, California, USA. Lisa is known for Psychophonia (2016), Mindless (2014) and The Class Analysis (2014).