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- Actress
- Producer
Born in Chicago, but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Rachel Melvin had always known she was going to pursue a career in acting. Rachel moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career immediately after graduating from high school in Phoenix, Arizona in May 2003. She booked her first audition in early 2004 for the independent horror film, Boo (2005).
Rachel recently wrapped a leading role in Dumb and Dumber To for Universal. The film reunites Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels with their iconic characters, it is slated for release in November of this year. In addition she just completed the dramatic indie film Madtown opposite Milo Ventimiglia and the psychological drama Sleepwalker with Ahna O'Reilly. Other films include the spoof comedy Zombeavers written and directed by Jordan Rubin,which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Rachel started her career on the long running soap opera Days of Our Lives earning her two Daytime Emmy nominations.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Originally from Elmhurst, Illinois, Campbell started his career in film school at Columbia College (Chicago) and went on to the legendary improv-comedy theater, The Second City, where he earned his comedy chops, working alongside, among others, Steve Carell, Bob Odenkirk, and Chris Farley. This led to his film debut in Home Alone (1990).
A role on Fox's Herman's Head (1991) followed, and Campbell's move to Los Angeles was assured. He has appeared in such classic films as Groundhog Day, Armageddon, and in many episodes of television. In 1996, he starred in Local Heroes (1995), a Fox Network sitcom developed by Witt-Thomas Productions. Also a voice talent, he has voiced a wide variety of advertisements, television shows, television cartoons, and will be heard as Boomer the Bear, in Paramount's animated feature, Wonder Park (2019).- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Senta has been in show business since she was six months old. She kicked off her career in Chicago with a diaper commercial showcasing her naked bottom. Senta must have done something right, as she has since appeared in more than one hundred national commercials...thankfully clothed. At the age of seven, she landed the role of "Molly" in the National Touring Company of Annie and racked up a whopping four hundred and eighty-seven performances all over the country. While pursuing her high school diploma at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, Senta co-starred in the blockbuster films, Home Alone and Home Alone 2, as "Tracy McCallister". After graduation at the age of sixteen, she migrated to LA to attend USC's School of Theatre, where she got her bachelors degree. Her most recent television credits include large recurring roles on MTV's Faking It and Nickelodeon's Bella & The Bulldogs. Senta has guest starred on numerous network and cable shows including Jane The Virgin, NCIS, Greek, Castle, The Mentalist, Rizzoli & Isles, The Ghost Whisperer, and Everybody Loves Raymond. She's incredibly proud of her work on the Emmy award-winning Beakman's World, as "Phoebe" the lab assistant, which is still in syndication all over the world. You can see her dubbed into Portuguese, it's true. Senta has appeared in the feature films Ten Years Later, Can't Hardly Wait, D.C. Cab, Boiler Maker, and Tequila Body Shots, just to name a few. Despite her continuous work in the entertainment industry, most of Senta's fans know her best from the ABC drama, My So-Called Life, in which she played Brian Krakow's love interest, "Delia". She is an alumna of The Second City and you can check her out on twitter: @sentammoses.- Mark Venturini was born on 10 January 1961 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) and Knight Rider (1982). He died on 14 February 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actress
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Catherine E. Coulson began her professional association with director David Lynch when she worked as assistant director on Lynch's legendary feature debut Eraserhead (1977). This is when the two began discussing the idea of a woman who carried a log around with her. Coulson spent much of her career working behind-the-scenes before finally bringing the Log Lady to life on Lynch's cult TV series Twin Peaks (1990). The Log Lady was one of the most puzzling and emblematic of the show's characters, and she has ensured Coulson a permanent place in the hearts of cult TV fans.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jake Choi is an American actor born and raised in Queens, New York.
Choi received his training at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City and has also studied with renowned teachers Bob Krakower and Ted Sluberski.
He has performed throughout New York on stage, film and TV. Choi currently resides in Los Angeles.- Ian Michael Smith was born on 5 May 1987 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Simon Birch (1998).
- Leslie grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a creek full of crawdads and thistles in the backyard. She is of Scott-Irish & Norwegian descent. Her mother was an English teacher - passionate about Women's Rights. Her father was a southpaw baseball pitcher and businessman. She was an athlete competing in a Junior Olympic Gymnastics program in Oklahoma till age 11. When the family moved, Leslie transitioned to dance, acting and choir. She made her Broadway debut at 17 as the ingenue lead in La Cage Aux Folles and joined NBC's daytime drama Search For Tomorrow as a contract player at 18.
- Visual Effects
Jake Bohringer was born on 5 December 1997 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is known for Damian and Most Dangerous (2022).- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Scott Beehner was born in Elmhurst, IL and raised in Omaha, NE. He is the oldest of seven children, including stand-up comedian, Johnny Beehner. Scott received his BA in Theatre from Fordham University at Lincoln Center in NYC and his MFA from the Actors Studio MFA Program at the New School also in NYC. Scott has been a Main Company Member of the Groundlings since 2009. He is married to actress, Eileen O'Connell.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Mark Pavia was born in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is known for Sick Nick, Fender Bender (2016) and The Night Flier (1997). He is married to Julie Entwisle.- Actor
- Executive
- Composer
Eric B. was born on 8 November 1963 in Elmhurst, New York, USA. He is an actor and executive, known for Limitless (2011), The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) and The Lincoln Lawyer (2011).- Roland Drew was born on 4 August 1900 in Elmhurst, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940), Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939) and Wildcat Bus (1940). He was married to Dorothy Dearing. He died on 17 March 1988 in San Monica, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Kevin Cotteleer was born on 5 March 1975 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Men in Black II (2002), Kiss Me (2014) and The Event (2010).- Jeff Hornacek was born on 3 May 1963 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for The NBA on TNT (1988), NBA on NBC (1990) and The 1997 NBA Finals (1997). He has been married to Stacy Nelson since 7 June 1986. They have three children.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Director
Sarah Gobble was born on 16 August 1983 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Hooker with a Heart of Gold (2010), Nostalgia Critic (2007) and 80's Dan (2011). She has been married to David Gobble since 8 May 2016. They have one child. She was previously married to Brian Lewis.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Born in Queens, NY, Thunders is best known as the lead guitarist for the New York Dolls in the early 1970s and unintentionally helped inspire the Punk movements in New York City and London. He later formed The Heartbreakers and went on to a solo career. His career was often interrupted by issues related to drug addiction, and he died under suspicious circumstances in a New Orleans, LA, hotel room at 38 years old.- Rick Snyder was born on 27 January 1951 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for U.S. Marshals (1998), The Net (1995) and The Human Stain (2003). He has been married to Susan Shirley Tyra since 1981. They have two children.
- Actor
- Editor
- Director
Ariel Pacheco, born Ariel Rolando Pacheco was born in Elmhurst,Queens, New York City and raised in Elmhurst and Corona. He is the first of four children of Luis Rolando Pacheco and Adalgisa Pacheco, both of whom were born in the Dominican Republic and migrated to the United States. Luis Pacheco was a college graduate in the Dominican Republic and became an engineer in the states. Adalgisa graduated from LaGuardia community college, and worked at the Wolrd Trade Center, then later at LaGuardia airport and JFK International airport.
Ariel attended high school in Long Island City at the experimental LaGuardia Middle College High School. After graduating, he enrolled into the City College of New York where he trained in theater and performed in many shows including Dog Sees God and De Donde. He was cast in a variety of shows for a few years at City. In 2009 he was accepted into the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in Chelsea, where he graduated with a 3.6 GPA. He was selected as one of twenty students to perform in front of a "Super Jury" panel of casting director's and agents in his final year. He graduated the conservatory in 2011 and booked his first lead role shortly after in the film An Inappropriate Affect (2015).- Additional Crew
- Actor
- Writer
Ace Antonio Hall was born Acemandese Nzondi Hall in Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Nzondi (Ace Antonio Hall) is an American horror author and is the first African-American to win a Bram Stoker in a novel category for his young adult book. The Bram Stoker Award is the most prestigious award given to horror writers in the world.
Recently, Nzondi was inspired by one of the characters in his upcoming work subtitled Blood-Teens (the main title is N/A). He wrote, sung and produced an alternative rock song called "Teenage RockStarr" based on a teenage vampire singer named Elle, who is a part of a band named Toxic in his story. The song was released in July and it features the legendary hip-hop artist Fredro Starr (Onyx) and David Moreno on drums (Puddle of Mudd).
A former Director of Education for NYC schools and the Sylvan Learning Center, Nzondi earned a BFA from Long Island University. His recent novels are Lipstick Asylum, and his Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum Publishing).- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
John P. McCann is an American writer and voice actor. He is known for writing several episodes of family friendly cartoons for WB Animation such as Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Ozzy & Drix, Pinky Elmyra and the Brain and Batman Beyond. He would also write the episodes of an adult oriented web cartoon based on DC's Lobo, which is a notable departure from his usual works.- Timothy O'Rourke was born on 20 October 1957 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He died in June 1978 in Norwood Park Township, Illinois, USA.
- Ryan Smekrud was born on 10 June 2003 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for The Neighborhood.
- John Tarangelo was born on 31 August 1930 in Elmhurst, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Johnny Staccato (1959), Return from the Sea (1954) and Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). He died in June 1985 in Hampton Bays, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Recording artist and YouTube sensation Keenan Cahill worked hard to cement his place in pop culture. For one thing, he overcame incredible adversity, suffering from a rare genetic disorder called Mucopolysaccaridosis (MPS-6) since birth. For another, at the young age of 18, Cahill achieved international success initially with just the help of his iMac that he received for his 13th birthday. The Elmhurst, Illinois teen rose to fame with a series of hugely entertaining self-produced videos of himself singing and lip-syncing the hottest top 40 hits. Keenan switched over to lip-syncing to find his audience. Keenan would return to singing the songs once he gained an audience of over 459 million.
Keenan released his first original song on July 31, 2012, titled "Hands Up" with UK sister-duo Electrovamp, and released the music video on November 20, 2012, premiering it in the US on The Insider. "Hands Up" peaked at #14 on the US Billboard Club Play/Dance Chart. Keenan's second single was with French DJ Oriska and UK female group Doremi Fly called "Tonight." He debuted his third single "Closer" with Scottish Hip-Hop Duo SHY & DRS in late 2013.
Keenan's cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" first threw Cahill into the spotlight. Earning millions of views on YouTube and a legion of adoring fans for its lovably goofy take on Perry's ode to teenage love, Cahill suddenly found himself in the midst of a whirlwind of media attention. The video found its way to Perry herself and went from 600,000 views to 3 million in the span of a single week. The video has over 60 million views to date. Suddenly, Cahill was a celebrity himself.
Since then, Cahill collaborated with some of the biggest names in music including recent videos with 50 Cent, David Guetta, Justin Bieber and The Wanted; he would finally record his dream video with Katy Perry, but it was his famous "Down On Me" video with hip-hop artist 50 Cent that would make Keenan a household name. Keenan credited his start to two talk show hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Chelsea Handler, for first discovering his videos. He thanked Chelsea for introducing him to actress Jennifer Aniston, who put him in his first commercial for Smartwater, and it was DJ Pauly D from MTV's "Jersey Shore" who taught Keenan how to "fist pump" for his song "Beat Dat Beat."
For a kid whose life had, up to that point, been defined by what he couldn't do as a result of his rare genetic disease, MPS VI (estimated to occur once in every 340,000 live births), the impossible became possible almost overnight: the boy who spent the better part of his childhood shuttling between hospitals, suddenly had no limits on who he could become and what he could achieve.
With his new fan base of over 649 thousand subscribers and 459 million video views, Keenan caught the interests of some of today's biggest superstars - with cameos including 50 Cent for "Down On Me" circulating over 60 million views, David Guetta's Mega-Mix with over 32 million views and DJ Pauly D in "Beat Dat Beat" with over 10 million views, Cahill was one of the highest subscribed music artists on YouTube.
In addition to Cahill's wildly successful YouTube channel and a winningly funny appearance on E!'s "Chelsea Lately," Cahill has also appeared on CW's "America's Top Model" with Tyra Banks, NBC's "America's Got Talent" with Nick Cannon and ABC's American Music Awards performing with LMFAO, Justin Bieber, Will.i.Am and David Hassellhoff. He created viral campaigns for the World Series champion San Francisco Giants, the NBA's New York Knicks, Smartwater (starring Jennifer Aniston), and Wrigley's gum (with Serenading Unicorn). Keenan partnered with Paramount Pictures to promote the "Footloose" movie, making an amazing video with its star Julianne Hough.