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Paula Abdul

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Paula Abdul was raised in San Fernando Valley. When she was 8 years old, young, she started dancing lessons. Van Nuys High School was where she was the class president and the chief cheerleader. She graduated from high school in 1980. Following graduation she started the college process at Cal State Northridge. There she majored in radio and TV. After joining the L.A. Lakers cheerleaders, she became head cheerleader/choreographer after only a few months, eventually dropping out of college to dance and choreograph full-time. She was approached by The Jacksons to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, which was the first in a long list of videos and movies she would choreograph. With her first CD "Forever Your Girl", her singing career began to take off. However, the single "Straight Up" was a massive success and she has been a successful dancer/singer ever after. This is aided by her time on American Idol (2002-2004). Her father, Harry Abdul, is Sephardic ...

Paula Faris

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Paula Faris, an American journalist, worked previously as an anchor for television at ABC News. Her time as co-anchor on Good Morning America Weekend (2014-2018) and co-host of The View (2015-2018) are very well-known. She was previously co-anchor of America This Morning as well as World News Now. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. She was employed in radio sales, because television was not a viable option. She was hired as a WKEF/WRGT production assistant and then became a anchor and reporter. From 2002 until 2005, she was the sports anchor for weekends and weekday sports anchor at the WCPO-TV station in Cincinnati. When her contract ended, she became a anchor and sports reporter for the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 through December 2011. She was hired by ABC News' news division in December. Her debut on the network was on January 2, 2012 on ABC...

Markie Post

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Markie Post was born in Walnut Creek, California. Her first professional work was in television and film productions like "Card Sharks" (1978) or "The New Card Sharks” (1986). Then, she created projects such as Double Dare (1976). She has also appeared in TV shows such as 1st to Die (2003) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001), and Dyna Girl (2001). Her most notable TV role was that of "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). She was in the show's 156 episodes from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet, and well-known nuclear physicist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 until April 7 15th, 2015). Alongside her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26 June 26, 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). She was born in Palo alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek, California. She was a cheerleader at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California. She gra...

Sarah Chalke

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Sarah Chalke was born on 27 August 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Angie Chalke is her mother and Doug Chalke are her father. She is the middle of two siblings: the older one, Natasha Chalke, one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career in the film City Boy (1992), an original television film. After her first film she auditioned for the role as Becky on Roseanne (1988) in 1993. The show was seeking an actor to replace Alicia Goranson quit the show to go to college. Sarah graduated high school in 1995 and began filming the 1994-95 Roseanne (1988) season. Also, in 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film Ernest Goes to School (1994), along with Jim Varney. She was in Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear(1996). In both films she played the part of Krista Wilson as who was a cheerleader. In 1998, just a year after Roseanne (1988) was finished, Sarah was asked to play a character in a TV show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998). The show was based off the TV film w...

Lauren Ash

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Lauren Ash is a recent graduate of the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also a graduate of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is part of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She has twice won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also took home the 2008 Best Comedic Play and 2006 Best Sketch Troupe Awards. She's been in various roles on "Scare Tactics" and the Canadian TV show, "Almost Heroes." She was a regular in "The Ron James Show" and was a guest on "Lost Girl," "Cracked," "Bomb Girls" and "Call Me Fitz." She also appeared in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Academy Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She is also the voice of Sam in the animated Canadian show "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has been increasing dramatically in the period 2019-2020. How much does Lauren Ash make at 37 years old? Lauren Ash's main source of income is ...

Paula Patton

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Paula Patton was the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her mother is caucasian. She is of German, English, Dutch and English heritage. As a child, her family lived right close to the 20th Century Fox lot. She was a fervent movie enthusiast from childhood. Her mom was a teacher , and her father was an attorney. Paula claims that as a girl she would escape by "pretending to appear to be someone else" therefore it wasn't a surprise that she acted in high school plays at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite role was the one played by Abigail in "The Crucible". After graduating from the University of Southern California's summer camp, she took film classes and was given a 3-month assignment to create documentaries on PBS. The result was that she began working as a production assistant on TV documentariesand on Howie Mandel's talk show. Later, she produced documentary segments for Medical Diaries (200...

Amy Carlson

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Amy Carlson was born in Glen Ellyn in Illinois and spent her childhood in Chicago. However, when Amy was in high school, she and her family also lived in the Middle East where her parents, Bob and Barb, taught at the American School. Amy is the mother of two sisters: Betsy and Lori, as well as a brother Joe. Amy has backpacked all over Europe with her family as well as on her own. They both worked as teachers and were able to travel and camp together each summer because of this. They've camped in every American state except Alaska. Amy traveled to Rwanda in 1994 after the war to help with the relief efforts. Amy demonstrated artistic talent early when she was acting in school productions and winning writing contests. In high school she was a dazzling athlete who finished in the first ever 3200-meter relay in the Illinois girls track. After sustaining an injury, she could return to the stage and take on a variety of roles such as Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July" and Wa...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez

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Penelope Cruz Sanchez is the daughter of Eduardo Cruz, a Madrid hairdresser, as well as Encarna Sanchez. When she was a baby she was already a voracious performer, re-enacting commercials on TV for her parents' amusement, but she ultimately decided to concentrate on dancing. She continued her training by working with several well-known dancers following her 9 years studying classical ballet at Spain's National Conservatory. She realized her true calling at 15 years old when she defeated more than 300 other girls at an audition for an agency for talent. The contract she received landed her roles in Spanish TV programs as well as music videos. This opened up the doors to a promising career on the big screen. Cruz made her debut in a film in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) and then briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). Her third film, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning movie in which she played one four sisters who were seeking to win the lov...

Milena Govich

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Milena Govich is an actress also a director, actor, and musician. She has directed numerous episodes of TV that include Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). Also, she was the Co-EP/Producing Director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently attached to two pilots in progress. Milena was one of eight filmmakers selected for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, as well as the only Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. The short film she made and the TV series proof of concept called Unspeakable which starred Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober, was screened at its World Premiere at SXSW and won the Best Episodic Award at Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. The short film she made, Temporary (2017) has played across the country and was awarded Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest as well as the Director's Choice Award at Sedon...

Piper Perabo

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Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated stage, film and TV actor. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in New Jersey, she graduated summa cum Laude from Ohio University. In 2000, she was cast in a breakout role in Coyote Ugly. Since then, she's been featured in films such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" featuring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow", with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films starring Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and You" featuring Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime drama "10th & Wolf" featuring an ensemble cast that included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. She was also a part of the cast with Bruce Willis (with Joseph Gordon Levitt), Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian John's sci-fi action film "Looper". On TV, Perabo played Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network's spy drama "Covert Affairs....

Ayelet Zurer

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Ayelet Zuer is an Israeli actress who has received praise for her performances. She was born in Tel Aviv in 1967, she was first noticed by Hollywood when she was given the role of Eric Bana's spouse in the Oscar(r), nominated movie Munich (2005). Since moving to the United States, Zurer has appeared in Studio films such as Sony Pictures' Vantage Point with Dennis Quaid and William Hurt and Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Pieces opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected alongside Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons is opposite Tom Hanks. Darling companion Lawrence Kasdan's cast with Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel with Russell Crow. Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. Ewan McGregor was her co-filming partner in the film of Rodrigo Garces' Last Days in Desert. Also, she waited for The Last Knights to be released by Kazuaki Kriya, the Japanese director. As the Hostages' lead actress, she won the Go...

Pollyanna McIntosh

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Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her native Scotland and where she initially began to perform on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. When she was 16, she relocated to London where she quickly started working in independent filmmaking. (Her first professional gig on The Acid House was as a stoner in the film Irvine Welsh (1998)). She has also participated in theater as an actor as well as director. In 2004, she relocated to Los Angeles to direct "The Woolgatherer" the play which Anne Dudek (a regular guest on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) was directed. The play was praised by critics. Her first US film role was "Stacy" as the manipulative woman who was a born again Christian as seen in Headspace (2005). Her first movie role was in the film Headspace (2005) as the manipulative, born-again Christian "Thumper Wint". This comedy was written by Heathers (1988). Exam (2009), which was filming in London and LA and was her su...

Paget Valerie Brewster

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Paget Valerie is an American actress, singer as well as voice actor. Most famously, she was known for her character as Kathy in the fourth season of NBC sitcom Friends, she was also an actor and singer. Her first recognition was for her character Emily Prentiss, Supervisory Special Agent on the crime show Criminal Minds. She was on the show in the show on a regular basis from 2006 to 2012. She has returned often in the years since to guest appearances. She also portrayed Mr. Mumbles and Elise on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in Community's final season Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at law, Sara Kingsley in Fox's Grandfathered and Donald Duck’s twin sister Della on DuckTales 2017. This was the first appearance in animated form for the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10 in 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew) was a senior government official. Galen Brewster was her father, and was an administrator at the school. Brewster was born in Massach...

Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff (born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She received her training at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has been featured in films such as Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hacker's Game (2015). She portrays the role Mantis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. (2017). Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Canada, to a Korean mother and French-Russian father who was working as a consul there for the French government. Her grandfather was a painter Eugene Klementieff. Pom was her name since it sounds like the Korean words "spring" and "tiger" in Korean. Klementieff spent one year in Canada before her family moved frequently due to her father's work. They resided in Japan as well as the Ivory Coast, before settling in France. Klementieff's father died of cancer when she was just 5 and her mother suffered from schizophrenia and could n...