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1. Shailene Woodley Shailene Woodley Actress, Divergent Actress Shailene Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California, to Lori (Victor), a middle school counselor, and Lonnie Woodley, a school principal. She has one brother, Tanner. She was educated at Simi Valley High School in California. When Woodley was four years old she began commercial modeling. Acting roles followed...
2. Jonny Lee Miller Jonny Lee Miller Actor, Trainspotting Jonny Lee Miller (sometimes credited with an H) was born on November 15, 1972, in Kingston, England, UK, to actors Anna Lee and Alan Miller, and the grandson of actor Bernard Lee. After appearing in many high school plays at his selective state grammar school, Johnny dropped out at 17, to pursue acting full time...
3. Susie Abromeit Susie Abromeit Actress, Battle Los Angeles Susie Abromeit was born in Boston, MA and was a star athlete by the age of 16, when she became a top-ranked tennis player (No. 6 in the US), receiving a full tennis scholarship to Duke University. Once at University, Abromeit set her sights on acting and music. She is quickly on the rise as part of the highly-anticipated Netflix original series...
4. Yaya DaCosta Yaya DaCosta Actress, The Kids Are All Right Yaya DaCosta was born and raised in New York City along with her sister and two brothers. She got her first acting gig at the age of eleven when her junior high school drama teacher, Ann Willis Ratray, encouraged her to audition for educational films. She continued to perform in school shows throughout high school and college and in 2005...
5. Beverly D'Angelo Beverly D'Angelo Actress, American History X Intriguing, inspiring, and never less than interesting -- key adjectives in describing the career of Beverly D'Angelo, which has well passed the three-decade mark. Perhaps deserving better movies than she generally found herself in, she nevertheless was always an object of fascination and the one to watch...
6. Sean Murray Sean Murray Actor, NCIS
7. Sam Waterston Sam Waterston Actor, Law & Order
8. Ray McKinnon Ray McKinnon Actor, The Blind Side
9. Edward Asner Edward Asner Actor, Up Ed Asner is a television legend, the winner of seven acting Emmy Awards (which puts him tied with Mary Tyler Moore, both of whom rank second to their "Mary Tyler Moore Show" co-star, Cloris Leachman who has nine). In all, he has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award, with 17 nods for a Primetime Emmy and three for a Daytime award...
10. Virginie Ledoyen Virginie Ledoyen Actress, The Beach Virginie Ledoyen was born Virginie Fernandez on 15 November 1976 in Aubervilliers, near Paris. At the age of 2, she was already shooting advertisements for television. At 9, she started going to the École des Enfants du Spectacle, and made her film debut at 10 in What Every Frenchwoman Wants. She was then nominated for the César (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for most promising actress in 1993...
11. Kathleen Rose Perkins Kathleen Rose Perkins Actress, Gone Girl Kathleen Rose Perkins grew up in New Baltimore, Michigan, a small town 40 miles north of Detroit. The sister of four older brothers, she enjoyed her alone time making up plays and putting them on for people in the neighborhood. This inevitably led to a high school career in which she was very involved with the school's drama and choir program...
12. Laci J Mailey Laci J Mailey Actress, Falling Skies
13. Zena Grey Zena Grey Actress, Snow Day
14. Kevin J. O'Connor Kevin J. O'Connor Actor, The Mummy Kevin's first dream was to be a cartoonist, but in later years decided to on acting. Getting his early training in Chicago, his first movie role was in Peggy Sue Got Married. He has since appeared in over 30 films as well as ABC's short-lived Gideon's Crossing. He recently appeared in as Igor in Stephen Sommers's Van Helsing. He also worked with Sommers in The Mummy and Deep Rising.
15. Bob Gunton Bob Gunton Actor, The Shawshank Redemption
16. Yaphet Kotto Yaphet Kotto Actor, Alien
17. Rachel True Rachel True Actress, Half & Half Rachel True has been working for most of the 1990s. She broke into the business with a pair of guest roles on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show In 1993, Rachel moved to L.A.; she then appeared in the rap parody CB4 with Chris Rock. She also landed another pair of guest spots on the HBO sitcom Dream On...
18. Sydney Tamiia Poitier Sydney Tamiia Poitier Actress, Death Proof
19. Emma Dumont Emma Dumont Actress, Aquarius
20. Jay Harrington Jay Harrington Actor, American Reunion
21. Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes Actress, Spartacus Joanna Barnes is an American actress and novelist and journalist. Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved to Los Angeles, California soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She has since had roles in more than twenty films and made guest appearances on many television shows...
22. François Ozon François Ozon Director, Swimming Pool
23. Roger Donaldson Roger Donaldson Director, The Bank Job
24. Danny Sapani Danny Sapani Actor, Trance
25. Randy Savage Randy Savage Actor, Spider-Man One of the most colorful wrestlers in and out of the ring, Randy "Macho Man" Savage became a larger-than-life pop icon along with other wrestling superstars, such as "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Snuka (aka "Superfly Jimmy Snuka"), Jesse Ventura and Dwayne Johnson (aka "The Rock")...
26. Samantha Shelton Samantha Shelton Actress, Shopgirl Samantha Shelton was born in Los Angeles, California, into a family of blondes. Three older sisters, including actress Marley Shelton, ushered her into an artistically inspired childhood. Mother Carol is a singer/teacher and father Christopher Shelton is a director. Sam studied acting at the North Carolina School of the Arts...
27. Maggie O'Neill Maggie O'Neill Actress, Gorillas in the Mist
28. John Kerr John Kerr Actor, South Pacific His father Geoffrey Kerr (b. 25 Jan 1895, London; d. 1971) and mother June Walker (b. 14 June 1904, New York City; d. 1966) were successful Broadway and, occasionally, film actors. He went into theatre as soon as he graduated from Harvard. He had an important role in the stage play "Bernadine" in 1952...
29. Lily Aldridge Lily Aldridge Self, Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Lily Aldridge is best known for her work as a Victoria's Secrets lingerie model. She appeared in seven Victoria's Secret Fashion shows from 2009 through 2015 and became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010. Aldridge appeared in the 50th Anniversary edition of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2014...
30. Gloria Foster Gloria Foster Actress, The Matrix Gloria Foster will always be best known for her performance as The Oracle in The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded, but the actress's career spanned four decades on the stage and screen. Born on November 15, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, Foster was put in the custody of her grandparents and raised on a farm...
31. Petula Clark Petula Clark Self, The Sound of Petula Petula Sally Olwen Clark was born in West Ewell Surrey, England on November 15, 1932. Petula made her first broadcast as a singer for the BBC Radio Overseas Service in October 1942, and became an overnight star on BBC National Radio in December 1942 at the age of 10. After many radio shows for the BBC during World War 2...
32. James Widdoes James Widdoes Director, Two and a Half Men Widdoes starred as senior student and Fraternity President "Robert Hoover", alongside John Belushi, in the 1978 film, National Lampoon's Animal House, as well as the 1979 TV series spin-off, Delta House. He has guest-starred in many TV series episodes since then, including Remington Steele...
33. John Orchard John Orchard Actor, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
34. Whitman Mayo Whitman Mayo Actor, Sanford and Son Noted for portraying characters older than his actual age, Whitman Mayo was in his early 40s in the early 1970s when he first played the sexagenarian "Grady" on "Sandford & Son" -- a role that popularized the expression "Good Goobily Goop!" Nearly thirty years later his "Grady" role had just about caught up with him in terms of age and...
35. Ace Young Ace Young Self, Planet 360 Ace Young is from Colorado and is an American Idol Season 5 finalist. He has just released his new single, "I Wanna Fall In Love Again", which he wrote and produced along with dear friend and Top Swedish Producer, Harry Sommerdahl, that is digitally distributed through Jimmy Buffett's Mailboat Records...
36. Sammy Sheik Sammy Sheik Actor, American Sniper Sammy Sheik was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His passion for acting drove him to leave home shortly after high school and move to New York to study theatre. He soon landed his first film role in the Albert Brooks' satire comedy "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World", playing Al-Jazeera executive "Mukhtar...
37. Sophia Di Martino Sophia Di Martino Actress, Flowers
38. Judy Gold Judy Gold Self, World's Dumbest Two-time 'Emmy Award' winner Judy Gold is a veteran of stand-up comedy, known for her edgy wit, sharp timing, and infamous crowd work. Consistently appealing to all generations and backgrounds, Judy can be found throughout most mediums of entertainment: TV; Film; Web-Series'; Stage; Storytelling; Radio/Podcasting; Writing and thanks to her music degree in piano from Rutgers University...
39. Thalmus Rasulala Thalmus Rasulala Actor, General Hospital
40. Ron Thomas Ron Thomas Actor, The Karate Kid
41. Susanne Lothar Susanne Lothar Actress, The Reader
42. Chad Kroeger Chad Kroeger Music Department, Spider-Man Sometimes he is referred to as the "Scary Jesus man on TV." But no matter what he is in your eyes, Chad Kroeger is a man who has done very well in the rock world. Together with his band Nickelback, Chad has been very successful. In summer 2002, Chad turned out to be a great artist even without Nickelback...
43. Judith Chapman Judith Chapman Actress, The Young and the Restless
44. J.C. Brandy J.C. Brandy Actress, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
45. Carol Bruce Carol Bruce Actress, Planes, Trains & Automobiles Daughter of Harry and Beatrice Levy - Graduate of Erasmus High School, Brooklyn, NY. Made her Broadway debut in "Louisiana Purchase" which was especially written for her by Irving Berlin.
46. Jason Thompson Jason Thompson Actor, General Hospital
47. Margaret Reed Margaret Reed Actress, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Margaret Reed grew up in Salinas, California before entering the University of California at Santa Cruz where she earned her B.A. in Theatre Arts. Margaret then was awarded her M.F.A. from Cornell University. She then toured the U.S. in John Houseman's The Acting Company, playing many different classical heroines...
48. Lewis Stone Lewis Stone Actor, The Lost World By the time that he was 20, Lewis Stone had turned prematurely grey. He enlisted to fight in the Spanish American War and when he returned, he returned to be a writer. This turned to acting and he began to appear in films during the middle teens. His career was again interrupted by war as he served in the cavalry during World War I...
49. Jack Burns Jack Burns Actor, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
50. Danny Kamekona Danny Kamekona Actor, Santa Barbara
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