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- Madison Wolfe was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She began acting at the age of seven, and made her debut alongside Kristen Stewart and Amy Adams in "On The Road." In the years following, Wolfe landed many roles in various critically acclaimed films and television shows such as Jessica Brady in "The Campaign," starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, Audrey Hart in "True Detective," opposite Woody Harrelson and Matthew Mcconaughey, and Young Poppy in "Mr. Church," starring Eddie Murphy. She can also be seen playing Bryan Cranston's daughter in "Trumbo," and acting alongside Robert DeNiro, Jennifer Lawrence, and Bradley Cooper in David O. Russell's "Joy."
Wolfe is best known for her lead role in James Wan's "The Conjuring 2." Starring opposite Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, she plays Janet Hodgson: a young girl from Enfield, England who is traumatized and haunted by the possession of demonic spirits. Wolfe is also well known from her lead role in Oscar winner Anders Walter's "I Kill Giants." Rotten Tomatoes names Madison's "powerhouse performance" as troubled teen Barbra Thorson one of the highlights of the film.
Most recently, Wolfe can be seen playing Tessa Mayfair opposite Alexandra Daddario in AMC's "The Mayfair Witches." She has completed production for her next true crime thriller, Warren Skeel's "Man in The White Van." Set in 1974, Wolfe portrays the lead role of Annie Willains: a free spirited teen from a small town in Florida who becomes the obsession of a horrific stalker. Being a musician, Wolfe also wrote and recorded an original song for the film's soundtrack to be released. The film is not yet dated. - Ashley McCall Scott is an American actress and model. She was born on July 13, 1977 in Metairie, Louisiana, but raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She began her modeling career as a young girl. She was a 1993 Elite Model Look finalist and became a Model for Elite Miami, she modeled internationally and graced the runways at fashion shows in Miami, Paris and London.
Ashley has appeared on the cover of the prestigious "Hollywood Reporter" and has been tracked by photographers from such publications as "WWD", "US Weekly", "Vegas", "Salon", "Victim", "ShortHair" and "Cosmo Girl". Her first screen credit was as "Gigolo Jane" in the feature film, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). In 2001, she also broke into TV, when she was cast as "Asha Barlow" in the second season of FOX's hit sci-fi show, Dark Angel (2000).
In 2002, Ashley joined the cast of Birds of Prey (2002) as "Helena Kyle" (a.k.a The Huntress). She followed her work on "Birds of Prey" with films such as S.W.A.T. (2003), Evil Remains (2004), Walking Tall (2004), Lost (2004) (voice), Into the Blue (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Strange Wilderness (2008), 12 Rounds (2009) and TV movies, such as Christmas Mail (2010), Unstable (2012), The Nightmare Nanny (2013), Summoned (2013), Holiday Road Trip (2013).
She played "Emily Sullivan" in the CBS drama, Jericho (2006) (2006-2008) and was a guest star on CSI: Miami (2002), NCIS (2003) . She voiced Maria in the 2013 video game, The Last of Us (2013).
Scott starred in a number of made-for-television movies in recent years, primarily for the Lifetime network, including Summoned (2013), and The Nightmare Nanny (2013), 16 and Missing (2015). She was cast as series regular "Mary Newhouse" in the Lifetime comedy-drama series, UnREAL (2015), opposite Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer. UnREAL was acclaimed by critics as the best summer TV drama.
She resides in Los Angeles and was married to Steve Hart, Worlds Apart lead singer until their divorce in 2019. They are the parents of two baby girls. - Producer
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Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, Jr., an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres. Her parents divorced when she was 16 years old. Her mother remarried, and her new husband, salesman Roy Gruessendorf, moved the family to Atlanta, Texas.
After graduating from Atlanta High School in 1976, Ellen attended the University of New Orleans as a communications major, but she dropped out after one semester. She held a wide variety of jobs until she turned to stand-up comedy, making her bones at small clubs and coffeehouses before working her way up to emcee Clyde's Comedy Club by 1981. Her comedy was described as a distaff version of Bob Newhart. Beginning in the early 1980s, she toured nationally and was named the funniest person in America after winning a competition sponsored by the cable network Showtime. This led to better gigs, including her first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1986.
Though DeGeneres's early forays into series television were not successful (she appeared as a supporting player in two short-lived TV situation comedies in the period 1989-92, Open House (1989) and Laurie Hill (1992)), she scored a hit headlining her own 1994 sitcom on ABC "These Friends of Mine" (renamed Ellen (1994) after its first season). She made TV history in April 1997, when her character, and DeGeneres personally, revealed that she was a lesbian. However, the show was canceled the following season due to declining ratings, after which DeGeneres returned to the stand-up circuit. In 2001, DeGeneres launched a new series, The Ellen Show (2001), on CBS, but it suffered from poor ratings and was canceled.
Redemption as a television artist came in 2003, when DeGeneres's daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), proved to be both a critical hit and a commercial success. Along with good ratings, the show has won unprecedented kudos from the industry, winning 15 Emmy Awards in its first three seasons on the air and becoming the first talk show in TV history to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show in its first three seasons.
DeGeneres has also made a name for herself as a host of awards shows. She hosted the Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1997, as well as the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001 and 2005. In February 2007, she had the ultimate TV awards show gig, hosting the Oscars, which she hosted again in 2014.- Music Artist
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Jonathan Batiste is an iconic, unique artist of this generation. With his unique voice on piano and dapper style, Jonathan has ignited the New York City music scene. He comes from a celebrated lineage of New Orleans musicians. He has performed in over 40 countries; headlined in premier venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and Concertgebouw; released CDs ("Times In New Orleans" and "Live In New York: At The Rubin Museum Of Art"), 2 EP's ("The Amazing Jon Batiste EP" and "In The Night EP"); performed on national TV (NBA All-Star Game Half-Time Show 2008, HBO series "Treme", BET etc.); and collaborated with Wynton Marsalis, Prince, Jimmy Buffett, Roy Hargrove, and Cassandra Wilson, among others. He is a "Movado Future Legend" award recipient and a "Steinway Performing Artist."
Starting out on the drums at age 8, by 12 he had moved on to--and was quickly advancing in--the piano. He is also a vocalist, arranger, composer, and "harmonabord" player.
As a role model in his community, Batiste empowers the next generation of musicians. With his role as co-director and music curator at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, he has programmed year-long educational workshops for hundreds of students. As an educator and a humanitarian, he has conducted clinics and master classes worldwide. Jonathan is also a traveling ambassador for the NY-based non-profit organization "Music Unites," founded by Michelle Edgar. Batiste collaborates with Edgar on various projects throughout the year dedicated to bringing music education to underprivileged children in underfunded inner-city school systems.
Jonathan is the founder and leader of The Stay Human Band, which is comprised of some of New York City's most creative young musicians. The Stay Human Band is a marching band that moves through the city, sharing their world-class music and uplifting high energy with the people of New York. They recently released an album, "MY N.Y.," which was recorded entirely in the city's subway cars and on its street corners, giving the listener a candid look into New York City.- Actor
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Johnny Sibilly is an actor, producer, and advocate based in Los Angeles. In 2018, Sibilly made waves with his role of Costas Perez on FX's groundbreaking show "Pose," created by Ryan Murphy. Sibilly is an ardent champion for Latinx and LGBTQ+ rights, and has grown a sizable following online, known for his progressive and comedic voice.- Sherri Eakin was born in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is known for Will Trent (2023), The Madness of David Judge and We Have a Ghost (2023).
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Tijuana Ricks grew up in Gramercy, Louisiana.
Graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Performing Arts and Psychology and was a member of the sketch comedy troupe, Kaktabulz.
Tijuana received her MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama and lives in Los Angeles.- Misty Ormiston was born on 17 July 1983 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Meet the Spartans (2008), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) and The Loft (2014).
- Chantille Boudousque was born on 16 November 1978 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Cellular (2004), Diary of a Tired Black Man (2008) and The Help (2004).
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Born in Metairie, as Joseph William McRae, but raised in Kenner, Louisiana, and known to his family and friends as "Joey." In early 2000, Joseph began his acting career, where he started in commercials, then film in shorts and features. He is known for his work on NCIS: New Orleans (2014), URYDE (2018) and Rugaru (2012). However, he has the gambit of the entertainment industry of film, television, commercials, modeling, print, and theater.
Married to his high school sweetheart, Ashlie, they have two children, a son, Ashton, and daughter, Lacie.
Joseph attended Bonnabel High School then went on to study at Nicholls State University. He began a career in law enforcement where he was a patrolman, detective and eventually promoted in rank.- Actor
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J. Omar Castro is the youngest of three brothers born of Honduran immigrant parents in a suburb of New Orleans, LA. With a passion for storytelling through art that imitates life, J. Omar is presently pursuing a doctorate from the University of Southern California, holds a Bachelor of Arts and GMBA from Tulane University and is a proud military veteran, having served 7 years in the U. S. Air Force. Although he performed in several plays at the grade school age, he enrolled in an acting class during his junior year at Tulane on a whim. As a result, he refueled an underlying passion, and it was at that time he began to develop a sustainable plan to always fuel his work as an artist. Upon completing his undergraduate studies and military service, J. Omar moved to Austin, Texas, to further develop his craft as an Actor in a Master in Fine Arts Program at the University of Texas.
He booked his first television role in a Navy Seals Mini Series within the first few months after the move, which warranted him leaving Austin, TX and subsequently moving to Los Angeles soon thereafter in 2001. After a few years in Los Angeles, J. Omar studied the Meisner Technique at Playhouse West in North Hollywood, which he credits for truly understanding the craft and his exponential growth as an Actor. He continues to develop his craft between film and television projects steadfast in further development of his ever-evolving craft.- Mike Malloy was born on March 22, 1976 in Metaire, Louisiana. Descended from immigrants who were cops and bricklayers in New York City in the early 20th Century, Malloy grew up in Houston, Texas after his family moved there due to his father's job in the petroleum industry. Mike pulled off a double major in theatre and studio art at Troy State University in Troy, Alabama in a mere three years. During this time Malloy secured his first book contract from McFarland to pen a biography on legendary spaghetti Western star Lee Van Cleef. Moreover, Mike also studied acting with Eb Lottimer in Florida in the late 1990's.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, California in 2001 Malloy not only joined the staff of Cult Movies magazine, but also contributed as a freelance writer to such print and online publications as Filmfax, Slate.com, Video Watchdog, Flaunt Magazine, and the TCM blog with a special emphasis on tough guy subject matter. Mike went on to snag a book contract for Movie Tough Guys of the '70s: An Encyclopedia, which he spent two years writing and researching before having to abandon the project after his Atlanta, Georgia home was burglarized and his laptop computer and back-up hard drive boosted.
In the wake of this unfortunate incident Malloy decided to put writing on the back burner and concentrated instead on the making of the documentary Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012), which was a substantial festival and critical hit. A recognized authority on cinematic tough guys, Mike has gone on to receive opportunities to write scripts that include a couple of drafts of the screenplay for the official Django (1966) sequel Django Lives!. Moreover, Malloy has also eked out a career as an actor: Among the beloved thespians Malloy has had the honor to share the screen with are Brett Halsey and Dan van Husen in The Scarlet Worm (2011), Mel Novak in Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015), and Ron Van Clief in Hot Lead Hard Fury (2018). In addition, Mike directed the music video for "Gunfighter" by Midnight Larks as well as has provided video introductions for a series of DVD and Blu-ray releases by Raro Video. - Eduardo Ortiz was born on 21 June 1982 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Kill Speed (2010), ER (1994) and Days of Our Lives (1965).
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Chris Marroy is an American film, television, and stage actor. He was born on September 25, 1988 in Metairie, Louisiana. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi, Summa Cum Laude in 2010. He lives in Los Angeles, California. More at chrismarroy.com- Linda Blatty was born on 21 October 1950 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for The Ninth Configuration (1980). She was previously married to William Peter Blatty.
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Peter Gennaro was born in Metairie, Louisiana on November 23, 1919. He made his Broadway debut in the ensemble of Make Mine Manhattan (starring Sid Caesar) in 1948 (this is somewhat in dispute as some biographies claim he debuted in 1950's Arms and the Girl), and Guys and Dolls (1950). He first drew notice from theatergoers as a member of the trio that danced the Bob Fosse number "Steam Heat" in The Pajama Game (1954), and continued to hold their attention with the "Mu Cha Cha" number with Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing (1956), which ran for 924 performances. A year later, he broke out of the chorus line and into choreography when he collaborated with Jerome Robbins on West Side Story, notably choreographing (uncredited) a majority of the "America" and "Mambo" dance sequences.
In addition to his theatrical chores, Gennaro worked steadily in television, appearing in and/or choreographing such shows as Your Hit Parade, The Polly Bergen Show, Judy Garland's CBS variety program, and the Kraft Music Hall. With his dance troupe he was a guest on Ed Sullivan's long-running CBS Sunday night variety show dozens of times, and he was a member of the regular repertory company on the short-lived CBS 1964-65 variety show The Entertainers, one of the stars having been Jon Davidson. Gennaro also served for many years as choreographer for Radio City Music Hall, staging routines for the Rockettes. He died at age 80 on Sept. 28, 2000 in New York City.
He was posthumously inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2002- Actress
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Kristi Chalaire was born on 31 October 1980 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Down in New Orleans (2006), Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006) and Campus Confidential (2005).- Actor
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Nick Augusta Thompson was born on 15 February 1978 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Underground (2016) and Claws (2017).- Additional Crew
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Aaron Vaccaro was born on 26 July 1982 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. He is a writer, known for The Villains of Valley View (2022), Drama Club (2021) and Mike & Molly (2010).- Stunts
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Steve Buckley lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and their 5 children. He began his stunt career in 1978 performing in automotive thrill shows; twice breaking the world record for the longest car jump in the world.
Steve is one of the most proficient drivers in the industry today (Commercials, TV and Film) and a much sought after Performance Driving Consultant.
When not working in the film industry Steve works as a Voiceover Artist and Video Producer.
He is the author of the fiction novel 'Silent Footsteps' and briefly entered the radio broadcast industry as a DJ for a number of radio stations in the Portland area. An accomplished drummer, his band recorded an album in Nashville in 1989.
Steve, a true "rink rat", retired as a goalie coach and has spent every hockey season since 2009 as the radio "play by play" announcer for various Junior 'A' hockey teams in the Northwest
His first love is working as a stunt coordinator and stunt driver and looking forward to many more years as an active creator of Metal Mayhem.- Conover Kennard was born in 1957 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Scandalous (1984).
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Patrick McCullough was born on 4 August 1983 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), It's a Terrible Life (2013) and Bros (2015).- Actor
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Josh Duffy was born on 4 July 1984 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Treme (2010), Quantum (2012) and Dirty Movie (2011).- Chad Gaudin was born on 24 March 1983 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for 2006 American League Championship Series (2006). He has been married to Syndal Gorden since 29 January 2011. They have one child.
- Claire Conti was born on 27 April 1959 in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Meeting Evil (2012) and Tornado Warning (2012).