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Paula Abdul was born in San Fernando Valley, California. At age eight, she began dancing lessons. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the cheerleader of the year and class president for senior year. She graduated in 1980, and entered college at Cal State Northridge to major in radio and television. 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. The Jacksons recruited her to choreograph the 1984 "Torture" video, which was the first of a series of videos and movies she choreographed. After the release of her debut CD "Forever Your Girl" she began to sing and became a popular dancer and singer. The time she spent as an American Idol judge (2002) has helped her become more well-known as a performer and dancer. Her father, Harry Abdul, is Sephardic Jewish from Syria. Her mother, too Jewish was born and was raised in Can...

Mary McDonnell is an actress who has been nominated for two Oscars(r). She is famous for her portrayals of characters in period and contemporary screen roles. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy), who is a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. Her birthplace was Ithaca, New York and graduated from Fredonia State University of New York. Then, she went to the drama school and was accepted to the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. In the following two decades she was offered her first film role, in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) where she played "Stands with a Fist" she was a white girl born to the Sioux Indians. Her first Academy Award nomination was for this role. McDonnell's film credits include Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) & Mumford (1999) with veteran actors like Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley; Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996) (starring Will S...

Paula Faris is an American journalist who previously worked as an anchor for television at ABC News. She is most famous for her role as co-host of Good Morning America Weekend, from 2014 to 2018, and host of The View, 2015-2018. Before that she was the co-anchor on America This Morning (World News Now) and America This Morning (America This Morning). After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. Because of the lack of opportunities for TV, she took the position of a sales representative for radio. Then she was able to work for one year as a producer assistant for WKEF/WRGT. Later, she would occasionally anchor and report. She was the weekend and weekday sports anchors at WCPO TV, Cincinnati, from 2002 until 2005. After her contract expired, she became a anchor and reporter for sports at the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago from November 2005 through December 2011. In December 2011, it w...

Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She began her career as a television and film producer, producing films such as "The New Card Sharks", (1978), and "Card Sharks" (1986). She produced projects like Double Dare (1976), and was a guest on numerous TV shows like E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Her most popular role was for her performance in "Christine Sullivan" as a Night Court star (1984). The actress was on 156 episodes of this comedy, from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post is her daughter. She was a poet and noted nuclear physicist Richard Freeman Post (November 14, 1918 to April 7 in 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). Her birthplace was Palo alto, California and grew up close to Walnut Creek in California. She was a cheerleader at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. She earned her Bachelor of Arts d...

Sarah Chalke was born on 27 August 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her parents are Angie Chalke and Doug Chalke. Sarah is the middle child. She has an older sister Natasha Chalke and one younger sister, Piper Chalke. Sarah began her acting career in the film City Boy (1992), an original television film. After her first movie, Sarah auditioned for the role as Becky in Roseanne (1988) in 1993. The show was in search of someone to fill in for Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah graduated from high school in 1995 and was involved in the production of Roseanne (1988) between 1994 and 1995. In 1994, Sarah starred alongside Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to School (1994). In 1996, Sarah played in two movies: Robin of Locksley (1996) and Stand Against Fear (1996) in which she played an actress named Krista Wilson. Sarah was invited to perform in a 1998 TV show called Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. This happened one year after Roseanne (1988). Based on Nothing Too Good For a Cowb...

Lauren Ash is a recent graduate of the Second City Chicago Mainstage. She is also an alumna from the Second City Toronto Mainstage. She is also part of the comedy duo "Cory!". She's been an Canadian Comedy Award nominee twice for the title of Best Female Improviser. In 2008, she took home the award for the Best Comedic play award and in 2006, she was awarded the Best Sketch Troupe award. She has appeared in a variety of roles on "Scare Tactics" and "Almost Heroes", as well. She was a regular on "The Ron James Show" and was a guest in "Call Me Fitz,"""Cracked,"""Bomb Girls" and "Lost Girl." She has also been featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Academy Award-nominated movie "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voiced the character of Sam in the animated Canadian series "The Dating Guy." Her net worth has risen dramatically between 2019 and 2020. What's t...

Paula Patton is the daughter of Joyce (Vanraden) Patton and Charles Patton. Her father is African-American . her mother is caucasian, has German, English, and Dutch heritage. As a child and her family lived across from the 20th Century Fox lot. She was a fervent movie buff from the time she was a child. Her mother, who appreciated good films taught in a school, and her father was a lawyer. Paula admits that she used to escape from her mother by pretending to be someone else as a child. It is not surprising that she was involved in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School's high school dramas. Her favorite role was "Abigail" from "The Crucible". She went on to take a course in film at the University of Southern California in a summer program, and received a three-month contract to create documentary films for PBS. In the end, she could work as a production assistant in documentaries on TV and also on Howie Mandel’s talk show. Then she began producing documentary segments...

Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and was a part of her early years living in Chicago. Amy resided in Glen Ellyn in Illinois until she graduated from junior college. Her family also lived in the Middle East, where her parents, Bob (and Barb) taught at the American School. Amy has three siblings, sisters Betsy and Lori and Joe, the brother. Joe. Amy has traveled across Europe with her family as well as independently. Both of her parents worked as teachers, so they had the opportunity to spend their summers together in the campfire and travelling across the United States. They've camped in every American state with the exception of Alaska. Amy was sent to Rwanda to help in relief efforts after the war in 1994. Amy displayed her talent for art early when she was acting in school plays, as well as winning writing contests. In high school she was a promising athlete who won the first ever 3200 meter relay at the Illinois girls track. In college, after an accident, she retu...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was the daughter of Eduardo Cruz (a retailer) and Encarna Sanchez (a hairdresser). As a child and a devoted performer, and would reenact commercials on TV for the entertainment of her family. But, she decided to devote her energies to dancing. She continued her training with a number of well-respected dancers, after having spent 9 years studying classical ballet in Spain's National Conservatory. When she was 15 she followed her destiny when she outclassed over 300 other dancers at an audition by a talent agency. The agency offered her roles on Spanish music videos and TV. The contract resulted in a variety of roles, which opened the way to a future on the world of big screens. Cruz made her debut film in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). She then briefly made an appearance in Framed (1992) the Timothy Dalton thriller. Her final film was the Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992), in which she played one of the four sisters fighting to win the he...

Milena Govich is an actress also a director, actor, and musician. She has helmed numerous episodes of TV such as Chicago Med (2015) (211) and The Equalizer (221). Additionally, she was the Co-EP/Producing director of Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently working on two pilots in the process of development. Milena was among eight women chosen by AFI for their prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. She also took part in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors program. Unspeakable was her short film as well as a TV show proof of concept, was premiered at SXSW. The film also won Best Episodic at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. The film, Temporary, she produced (2017) was shown throughout the United States. She was awarded the award for Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival. Best Dark Comedy Award at Atlanta ShortsFest. And the Director's Choice Award from Sedona International Film Festiv...

Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated stage, film and TV actor. Born in Dallas, Texas, and living in New Jersey, she graduated summa cum Laude from Ohio University. She was in the film Coyote Ugly's breakout role in the year 2000. She has been in a variety of films since then, including Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" in which she starred with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale as well as "Because I Said So" featuring Diane Keaton, and "First Snow" with Guy Pearce. "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Imagine Me & You" films with Steve Martin, "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Cheaper by the Dozen" films, "10th & Wolf" crime drama with a cast that included Dennis Hopper and James Marsden. Perabo starred alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action movie "Looper.". Perabo played Annie Walker on US...

Ayelet Zurer is among Israel's most popular actresses. She was born in Tel Aviv, and first garnered the attention of Hollywood when she was chosen by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking part, playing Eric Bana's wife in the Oscar(r) nominated film Munich (2005). Zurer has appeared in several Studio films since her arrival in the United States, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point featuring William Hurt and Dennis Quaid Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts opposite Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected in the role of 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 filming partner in Rodrigo Garces' Last Days in Desert. The actress also waited for The Last Knights to be released by Kazuaki Kriya who is the Japanese director. Rec...

Pollyanna McIntosh was born in Portugal and Colombia But she returned to Scotland where she began performing on stage during The Edinburgh Festival. She relocated to London at the age of 16 and soon was involved in filmmaking in the indie genre. Her first pay-per-view was as a stoner on Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998). She also worked as an actor and director in theatre. A move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought on more theatre and productions, including "The Woolgatherer" that she was the director Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) as well as David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to great reviews. In Headspace (2005) in which she was offered her first US movie part as "Stacy" as a manipulative and a born-again Christian. It was as the wild "Thumper Wint" in the comedy, Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder) written produced by Heathers (1988) writer Daniel Waters, that the reviewers began to be awa...

Paget Valerie Brewster is an American actress, voice actress and a vocalist. Her role as Kathy as a character that recurred on Friends Season 4, was her first major recognition. Her breakthrough role was Emily Prentiss, a Supervisory Special Agent on Criminal Minds. From 2006 to 2012 , she appeared on Criminal Minds frequently. The actress has returned for guest appearances since then and has returned to Criminal Minds frequently in the year 2016. Other roles she's performed include Mr. Mumbles, Elise, and Mr. Mumbles in Dan Vs. Frankie Dart, Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at Lawyer, Sara Kingsley, on Fox sitcom Grandfathered and the voice of Donald Duck's twin sister Della as well as in DuckTales 2017. This was the first time that she appeared in animation as the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10 in 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew) was an official for the government. her father, Galen Brewster, worked as administrator of a sc...

Pom Klementieff, a French actress, was born 3 May 1986. She studied at the Cours Florent drama school, Paris. She has been in movies such as Loup 2009, Sleepless Night 2011 and Hacker's Game 2015. She portrays the role of Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was the daughter of the Korean mother and an American-Russian father. Her father was consul in Quebec City, Canada. Eugene Klementieff, a painter was her grandpa. Her parents chose the name "Pom" because it's like the Korean words for both "spring" as well as "tiger". Klementieff was a citizen of Canada for a single year. Her family had travelled extensively due to her father's work. After moving to France she lived in Japan. Her father was diagnosed with cancer when she was 5 and her mother was suffering from schizophrenia and was incapable of caring for children and ...