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Freddie Highmore Actor, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
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Simon Pegg Actor, Shaun of the Dead English actor, writer and comedian Simon Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, to Gillian Rosemary (Smith), a civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician. His parents divorced when Pegg was seven. He later took his stepfather's surname, "Pegg". He was educated... | |
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Stephanie Leonidas Actress, Mirrormask | |
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Danai Gurira Actress, The Walking Dead Danai Gurira was born in Grinnell, Iowa to parents from Zimbabwe, when her father was teaching Chemistry at Grinnell College. When she was 5, the family moved back to Zimbabwe. Gurira studied social psychology at Macalaster College, and received an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She is the co-author of the play, "In the Continuum", with Nikkole Salter. | |
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Allie Grant Actress, Weeds Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Grant has wanted to be an actress for as long as she can remember. At the age of 10, she was cast in the role of "Isabella Hodes", on the Showtime hit, Weeds, which she shares 2007 and 2009 Screen Actors Guild nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Grant played Elizabeth Perkins' daughter on the show for 5 seasons... | |
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Madison Iseman Actress, Still the King | |
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Kristen Dalton Actress, The Departed | |
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Mindy Robinson Actress, V/H/S/2 Mindy Robinson is a Los Angeles-based actress and TV personality from Fall River, MA. She has become a prolific character actor in recent years, achieving over 150 appearances on TV and film. Her improv skills gained her exposure on over 30 network reality shows, and her extensive work in independent films continues to add to her growing and diverse fan base... | |
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Andrew Robinson Actor, Hellraiser Andrew Jordt Robinson was born in New York City and attended the University of New Hampshire, later receiving his B.A. in English from the New School for Social Research in NYC. After graduation, he spent a year in England at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts on a Fulbright Scholarship... | |
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Jake Weary Actor, It Follows | |
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Brett Dier Actor, Jane the Virgin Brett is an actor best known for his roles as Luke Matheson on Ravenswood and Pretty Little Liars. Currently playing Michael Cordero on Jane the Virgin (2014-?). Brett is quite versatile, plays the piano, guitar, fluent in french, break dances and practices Parkour. Has his first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. | |
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Meg Tilly Actress, The Big Chill Mother Patricia was a teacher, and former stage actress, her father Harry (Chinese), a car salesman. In the mid 1960s her mother divorced and moved back to Texada Island, British Columbia, to live with Tilly's grandmother, and later the family moved to Victoria. Sister of actress Jennifer Tilly. Raised in British Columbia by her mother and step-father... | |
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Vic Morrow Actor, Combat! Vic Morrow was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jean (Kress) and Harry Morrow, an electrical engineer. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Morrow dropped out of high school at 17 to join the U.S. Navy. When he left the Navy, he used the G.I. Bill to study pre-law at Florida State. While Morrow was working on his degree in Law... | |
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Matt Barr Actor, Hatfields & McCoys | |
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Enrico Colantoni Actor, Just Shoot Me! | |
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Anton Lesser Actor, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides British actor Anton Lesser (b. 1952) has played many of the principal Shakespearian roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company (Associate Artist since 1990), including Petruchio, Romeo and Richard III. He is very active in radio (BBC) and spoken word audio. Over a dozen recordings range from Paradise Lost and Homer to the title role in Hamlet... | |
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Sakina Jaffrey Actress, House of Cards | |
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Zach Galligan Actor, Gremlins 2: The New Batch Graduated from Columbia University. His mother, Carol Wolfe Galligan, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York. His late father, Arthur Galligan, was a founding partner in Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, in Washington. Married Ling H. Ingerick on September 25, 2005 at the Yale Club in New York... | |
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Florence Henderson Self, The Florence Henderson Show Florence Henderson was considered by protocol executive Jerold Franks, CSA to be "...one of the most generous stars I have ever worked with." Los Angeles, New York and all parts of the country, Florence has helped raise millions of dollars for various charitable organizations. Jerold Franks, friend and confidante to actress Mary Martin as well as producer of Ms... | |
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Julia Ling Actress, Chuck Most notably known for her work on prime time television on shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, House (FOX), ER, Grey's Anatomy, The OC, 8 Simple Rules (Disney), The Deep End (ABC), and the critically acclaimed Aaron Sorkin series, Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip (NBC), Julia Ling starred as the popular "nerd-herder" Anna Wu on Chuck... | |
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Thelma Ritter Actress, Rear Window Thelma Ritter appeared in high school plays and was trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In the 1940s she worked in radio. Her movie career was started with a bit part in the 1946 Miracle on 34th Street. In the movie she played a weary Xmas shopper. Her performance in the short scene was noticed by Darryl F. Zanuck who insisted her role be expanded... | |
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Paul Butcher Actor, Zoey 101 Paul's resume already stands tall! He has appeared on ER, NYPD Blue, The Bernie Mac Show, That 70s Show, and more. His movie credits include Hollywood Homicide with Josh Hartnett and Harrison Ford, and The Incredible Hulk where he starred as the young Bruce Banner. Paul lives in Malibu, California with his retired NFL line backer father... | |
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Alan Parker Director, Evita Prior to moving into film, Alan was noted as one of London's most talented advertising copywriters. He worked for the Collet Dickinson Pearce (CDP) ad agency in the 1960's and early 1970's, and began directing his own tvc scripts in their basement. Formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a photographers' agent)... | |
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Tom Burlinson Actor, The Man from Snowy River Actor and singer born on 14th February 1956 in Toronto, Canada, from English parents who had migrated to Canada after Word War II. The family transferred to New Jersey in 1958 and Tom was the typical all-American youngster with the Little League baseball cap, striped T-shirt and turned-up jeans. In... | |
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Katie Boland Actress, The Master | |
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Shane Harper Actor, God's Not Dead Shane Harper began dancing, singing, and acting in community theater at the age of 9. He was offered agency representation in the spring of 2006, at a regional dance competition. Shane obtained a black belt in Kempo Karate, and is an accomplished musician and songwriter, as well as a professionally trained dancer... | |
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Edward Platt Actor, Get Smart Forever and fondly remembered as Don Adams' foil on the popular Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy series Get Smart, character actor Ed Platt (also billed as Edward C. Platt) had been around for two decades prior to copping that rare comedy role. Born in Staten Island, New York, he inherited an appreciation of music on his mother's side... | |
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Gregory Hines Actor, The Cotton Club | |
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Lois Maxwell Actress, Goldfinger Lois Maxwell has lived in Canada having moved from England. While still acting in the Bond films during the 80s Lois also became a regular columnist for the Toronto Sun newspaper. She purchased a cottage in northern Ontario and would often share stories about her experiences on the movie set, her co-stars... | |
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Frank Collison Actor, Twin Peaks Frank's first "role" was a six month old "theatre mascot" at a tent theatre in Granville, Ohio. His father, John, was an actor and playwright and his mother, Peg, directed him in a number of plays while he was growing up in Virginia and Ohio. As a young boy, Frank assisted his father when he toured with his one man Abraham Lincoln show... | |
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Natalya Rudakova Actress, Transporter 3 She was born in Leningrad, former Soviet Union. Her parents moved with her from Russia to New York when she was 17 years old, and she continues to reside in New York. While working as a hairdresser at a salon, she was discovered by Luc Besson, the co-writer of Transporter 3, in New York, when she crossed a street. He gave her acting lessons and cast her as the female lead in Transporter 3. | |
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Erica Leerhsen Actress, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Erica Leerhsen was born February 14, 1976 in New York City, New York, where she was raised along with her two sisters, Nora and Debbie. She is the daughter of Barbara and Charles Leerhsen, a longtime editor of celebrity publication US Magazine (which became US Weekly in March 2000). She attended St... | |
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Andrew Prine Actor, Gettysburg Appearing on Broadway, Andrew Prine soared to recognition in the leading role of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Look Homeward Angel, and in his film role in the Academy award winner, The Miracle Worker. He has worked with Hollywood legends such as John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, William Holden, Glenn Ford... | |
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Karima McAdams Actress, Frontier Blues Karima was born in London. Her mother is Irish and Greek, her father Berber Moroccan. She spent her youth growing up in Tanger, northern Morocco along with her two sisters. At the age of 7 her family moved to east London where she attended middle and high school. During her teens she was scouted for a number of modeling agencies and became the face of many brands worldwide... | |
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Joan O'Brien Actress, Operation Petticoat Joan O'Brien began her show-biz career while she was in high school, on a local TV music show in California with Tennessee Ernie Ford. Soon she was a successful singer, and made the jump to acting. In about half the films she ever made it appeared that Joan played a nurse. Perhaps her most memorable appearance was in Blake Edwards' Operation Petticoat... | |
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Matthias Hues Actor, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Blonde, blue-eyed, tall and intimidating German actor Matthias Hues has an international reputation for playing action heroes, sinister villains to hilarious off beat characters. Matthias Hues was born on Valentine's Day in Waltrop, Germany, to the late Dr. Josef Hues and Maria Humperdinck Hues who still resides in Germany... | |
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Jack Benny Actor, The Jack Benny Program The son of a saloonkeeper, Jack Benny (born Benny Kubelsky) began to study the violin at the age six, and his "ineptness" at it later become his trademark (in reality, he was a very accomplished player). When given the opportunity to play in live theatre professionally, Benny quit school and joined vaudeville... | |
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Rie Rasmussen Actress, Angel-A Rie Rasmussen was born in Denmark in 1976 to an artist mother and an Economist father. She was raised in the Danish country in an extended family with nine brothers and sisters. She moved to New York at the age of 15 to paint and has continued to travel ever since. She lived in Huntington Beach California where she briefly attended film school as a director in 1998... | |
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Jules Asner Self, E! News | |
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Rob Thomas Soundtrack, Love Actually | |
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Ariel Vromen Director, The Iceman Born in Israel, Ariel Vromen has been the creative force behind numerous projects including Feature Films, Shorts, Music videos, and Documentaries and has directed and produced many projects for major production entities such as First Look Films, Screen Media Universal, Lightning Entertainment, Film Colony and Next Wave Films... | |
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Guillermo Francella Actor, Casados con hijos | |
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Tiffany Thornton Actress, Sonny with a Chance | |
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Najwa Nimri Actress, Lovers of the Arctic Circle | |
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Sally Gray Actress, I Became a Criminal Lovely, statuesque actress Sally Gray, complete with husky voice and dumb blonde persona was born Constance Vera Stevens in London, England on February 14, 1915. In a career instigated by her ballerina mother, Sally began performing at age 10 in minstrel shows and was initially trained in dance and acting at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art... | |
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Tina Aumont Actress, Fellini's Casanova | |
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James Eckhouse Actor, Beverly Hills, 90210 | |
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Mark Lutz Actor, Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road Mark Lutz was born on Valentine's Day in Montréal, Québec. At the age of 13, he moved to Hong Kong and he lived there for 4 and a half years before moving to Toronto, where he finished high school. Mark attended the University of Guelph and graduated with an Honors BA in Political Science. It was only after finishing University that Mark embarked on his life long ambition - acting... | |
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Valente Rodriguez Actor, Erin Brockovich | |
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Eric Shea Actor, The Poseidon Adventure | |
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