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Connie Britton began playing country music fading sensation Rayna Jaymes in Nashville (2012) after having wrapped production for the five season long Friday Night Lights (2006) alongside Kyle Chandler. She previously appeared in Universal's Friday Night Lights (2004) -the movie- directed by Peter Berg and also starring Billy Bob Thornton; and Edward Burns' independent feature Looking for Kitty (2004).
Britton was born Constance Elaine Womack in Boston, Massachusetts, to Linda Jane (Cochran) and Edgar Allen Womack, Jr., a physicist and energy company executive. She is of Irish, German, and English descent.
Britton received accolades for her starring roles in Edward Burns' acclaimed independent films The Brothers McMullen (1995) and No Looking Back (1998). In the former, she captivated moviegoers with her portrayal of "Molly", the luminous wife of a cheating husband. This popular low-budget film went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. After nearly canceling her audition with director Edward Burns, this last meeting of the day turned into the role that would launch her career. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Britton moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, at the age of seven with her family, including her fraternal twin sister. She went on to attend Dartmouth College, where she majored in Asian studies and spent a term in Beijing, China. Upon graduation, she moved to New York, where she spent two years at the Neighborhood Playhouse studying with Sanford Meisner, and an additional two years performing in regional theater and off-Broadway productions. She moved to Los Angeles after the success of The Brothers McMullen (1995).
She starred in ABC's Lost at Home (2003) opposite Mitch Rouse and Gregory Hines. Her other television credits include The Fighting Fitzgeralds (2001) opposite Brian Dennehy, a recurring role in the highly-acclaimed drama The West Wing (1999) and a starring role in the award-winning comedy Spin City (1996) opposite Michael J. Fox. Additionally, Britton starred in the recent feature films The Next Big Thing (2001) and One Eyed King (2001).
In her free time, Britton, who resides in both New York and Los Angeles, enjoys hiking, yoga, and doing volunteer work.- Actor
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Eric Graise was born on 6 March 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Locke & Key (2020), The Tomorrow War (2021) and Queer as Folk (2022).- Actress
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Born March 6, 1968 in Queens, New York, she is the third of six kids. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist. Her mother, Anne, is a nurse. Both are Irish immigrants. Moira was raised in Ronkonkoma, NY. She attended Connetquot Senior High School and graduated in the class of 1986. Later Moira attended Marymount Manhattan College. In 1984 Moira was cast in a small role in Connetquot Senior High School's production of Annie. Due to illness, the young woman playing Miss Hannigan was replaced, causing a series of cast changes. Director Eric Martinsen chose to recast Moira as Grace Farrell. She was a great success, and so began her career.- Actor
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Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.
As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a director; her experience as a singer helped him understand how music was used in a scene. Rob often felt pressured about measuring up to his father's successful streak, with twelve Emmys and other prestigious awards.
When Rob graduated high school, his parents advised him to participate in Summer Theatre. Reiner got a job as an apprentice in the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania. He went on to UCLA Film School to further his education. Reiner felt he still wasn't successful even having a recurring role on one of the biggest shows in the country, All in the Family. He began his directing career with the Oscar-nominated films This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, and The Princess Bride.
In 1987, with these successful box-office movies under his belt, Reiner founded his own production company, Castle Rock Entertainment; along with Martin Shafer, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick, and Alan Horn. Under Castle Rock Entertainment, he went to direct Oscar-nominated films When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men. Reiner has credited former co-star Carroll O'Connor in helping him get into the directing business, showing Reiner the ropes.
Reiner is known as a political activist, co-founding the American Foundation For Equal Rights, a group that was an advisory for same-sex-marriage. He has spoken at several rallies on several topics, an advocate for social change regarding such issues as domestic violence and tobacco use.
Reiner made cameo appearances on television shows 30 Rock, The Simpsons, and Hannah Montana, and in films The First Wives Club, Bullets Over Broadway, Primary Colors, and Throw Momma From The Train, among many others.- Actress
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Lisa Gaye was born on 6 March 1935 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Hawaiian Eye (1959) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1957). She was married to Bently Clyde Ware. She died on 14 July 2016 in Houston, Texas, USA.- Actor
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Milo Manheim is an up-and-coming American actor born and raised in Los Angeles. He began his acting career in a local after-school program in Culver City at the age of seven, and he soon went on to perform in 15 musicals with Liza Monjauze Productions. These musicals include: Rent, Footloose, Tommy, A Chorus Line, Gypsy, and Spring Awakening.
Milo was discovered when casting director Amber Horn saw his performance as "Roger" in the musical Rent. This was a pivotal point in his budding career as she brought him in to audition for a new Disney Channel musical, Zombies. Milo booked the male lead, and Zombies premiered on Disney Channel in February 2018.
As the only son of Emmy and Golden Globe award winner Camryn Manheim, Milo grew up on the set of The Practice and Ghost Whisperer, and he developed an appreciation for the craft at an early age. In addition to his love of television and film, Milo is still drawn to the stage. Right after filming Zombies, Milo performed in the original musical Generation Me, which was performed at the Hudson Theatre and Playwright Horizons in New York City. He won the "Best Leading Actor" award for his role at the 2017 New York Musical Festival.
Following in his family's footsteps, he is an avid participant in community service and charities. After his role in Generation Me, Milo became an advocate for teen suicide prevention. He has also worked with a variety of different organizations to give back, including Bread & Roses Restaurant, Pediatric Aides, Poker for Puppies, Buy Life, and Foster Cares. Milo has volunteered with the Venice Family Clinic which provides health care to low-income residents, and he worked with disabled students at McBride Elementary to get them involved with the arts. In 2008, Milo contributed to the Obama campaign with funds raised from a lemonade stand and was invited to Washington D.C. to attend the inauguration. In Addition, for the past six years, Milo has been involved in Robert Kennedy Jr.'s Waterkeeper Alliance, and he had the opportunity to interview Robert Kennedy Jr. on a CBS news segment about the environment.
Milo plays guitar, drums, piano, and ukulele, and he dabbles in various wind instruments.- Anyone who loves B-movies of the 1950s appreciates this lovely actress Allison Hayes. She was born Mary Jane Hayes on March 6, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia. The auburn-haired beauty was the 1949 Washington, D.C. entry into the Miss America pageant. Shortly afterwards, Mary Jane adopted the familiar first name of Allison. She got her start on local Washington television before heading to Hollywood in the early 1950s. Allison began her career with Universal Pictures; the studio groomed her, but only on the path of B-movies. In her film debut, Francis Joins the WACS (1954), she was a supporting actress to the speaking mule, which had the title role. She played the devilishly alluring "Livia" in The Undead (1957), and co-starred with B-movie legend Tor Johnson in The Unearthly (1957).
Allison achieved film immortality in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), in which she tore the roof off the place, and killed rival Yvette Vickers. After that, Allison was a staple in classic B-grade horror films. She was in the exploitation classic The Hypnotic Eye (1960), which had a trailer showing an alleged hypnotist mesmerizing a volunteer as he stuck long needles in her arms (this was some of the typical ballyhoo going on at the time). However, Allison was a versatile actress; she did drama very well, as when she guest-starred on the television series The Untouchables (1959), in the highly-rated episode, The Rusty Heller Story (1960).
Allison had a flair for comedy, which she demonstrated when she appeared in the Dean Martin film, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963). Her last film appearance was with "The King", himself, Elvis Presley in Tickle Me (1965), with a hilarious script by the legendary writer Elwood Ullman. However, Allison's health declined steadily throughout the 1960s. Her death on February 27, 1977 was due either to leukemia or lead poisoning (due to doctor-prescribed calcium supplements). Allison Hayes died far too young; her fans will forever remember her legacy in films. - Michael O'Laskey II was born on 6 March 1983 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He is an actor, known for 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993) and The Sensei (2008). He has been married to Nicole Carlin O'Laskey since 5 June 2017.
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Martin Kove was born on March 6, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. Strong-featured, narrow-eyed actor who has portrayed a mixed bag of both good guys and bad guys. He first turned up on screen in several minor roles, and was noticed as the villainous Nero the Hero in the low-budget road race Death Race 2000 (1975), and then as Clem the sadistic rigger, breaking Jan-Michael Vincent's ribs in White Line Fever (1975). He cropped up on the television series Cagney & Lacey (1981) portraying honest Police Detective Isbecki, and then ended up on the wrong side of a rampaging Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
Kove probably scored his greatest visibility to the public in the hugely successful The Karate Kid (1984) in which he played John Kreese, the head instructor of the Cobra Kai karate school. He reprised the role in the two sequels, The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and The Karate Kid Part III (1989). Kove has since kept consistently busy, primarily in the action-thriller film genre, and has notched up over 80 film appearances to date, as well as numerous television guest roles.- Actress
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Not only is Ellen an actress but she is a member of Mensa, a student at the Lee Strasberg School, drives and races a six speed SS and collects Burmese cats. Her awards include Best Actress at the AFI for The Young Girl and the Monsoon (1999) and best supporting actress at the Japanese Film Festival for Dolores Claiborne (1995).
Her father, Dr. Erich Muth, was national optician of the year, has an entire museum named after him, has written numerous books on optics from which he donates the profits to The Erich Muth Scholarship; there is a section in the Smithsonian Museum donated by him. Her mother, Rachel Muth, helped make it possible for Ellen to be an actress, by taking her to all her auditions until she was 18.- Actress
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Amy Pietz (born March 6, 1969) is an American actress, known for her roles on television. She received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for her role as "Annie Spadaro" in the NBC sitcom, Caroline in the City (1995) (1995-1999). She later had starring roles in the short-lived sitcoms, The Weber Show (2000) (NBC, 2000-01), Rodney (2004) (ABC, 2004-06), and Aliens in America (2007) (The CW, 2007-08).- Elaine Silver and her twin sister Melanie were born on March 6, 1988 in California, USA to Lance and Claire Silver. They are known for sharing the parts of the same characters in both "General Hospital" (1993) and "The Flintstones" (1994). She is best known for playing Pebbles Flintstone, Fred and Wilma's daughter and Bamm-Bamm Rubble's playmate in the 1994 classic. Elaine left acting and entered Columbia College as a student.
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Millicent (Millie) Simmonds is a BAFTA nominated American actress from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania best known for Wonderstruck (2017), A Quiet Place (2018), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), and Helen & Teacher. She made her Broadway debut 2023 starring opposite Laurie Metcalf in Levi Holloway's Grey House, directed by Joe Mantello. Millicent originally hails from Bountiful, Utah and at a young age began performing and telling stories in American Sign Language. At the age of nine she joined the theater and drama club at her elementary school, where she fell in love with acting, playing Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2016 her drama teacher received an email with a casting call for a Deaf actress wanted for the part of Rose in a film adaption of Brian Selznick's award winning novel Wonderstruck. She quickly thought of Millie and encouraged her to try out. Millie, then twelve, sent in a one-take audition that brought the film's director Todd Haynes to tears, winning her what would become a stunning breakout performance. Millicent and Wonderstruck made their debut at Cannes and the New York Film Festival. She was named one of the Breakthrough Entertainers of 2017 by AP, and Time Magazine listed Rose as one of the Top 10 Movie Performances of the year. Millicent landed her next major role as Regan Abbott in John Krasinski's horror-thriller A Quiet Place, working alongside Emily Blunt and Noah Jupe. Krasinski was adamant about casting a Deaf actress to play Regan and using American Sign Language authentically. Her experiences became resources and inspiration for the script, story, and sound design of the film, which would go one to receive an Oscar nomination in the latter category. A Quiet Place was a surprise critical darling, debuting at the South By Southwest Film Festival where it received a standing ovation. In 2021 she reprized her role as Regan in the sequel A Quiet Place Part II. Millie is an advocate and activist on set and off. In 2017, Millicent became the first ever Deaf actor nominated for the Critics' Choice Award for her work in Wonderstruck and was nominated a second time in 2018 for her work in A Quiet Place. Her performance in A Quiet Place's sequel outing earned her a historic BAFTA Rising Star nomination, and the coveted Chainsaw Award. It is now widely regarded as one of cinema's best child performances. In 2021 it was announced she would be executive producing and starring as Charlie Serrano in an adaptation of the New York Times Best Selling novel True Biz. Her accomplishments and visibility have served as major steps forward in positive film and media representation for the Deaf and wider disabled community. Millicent is one of five siblings and loves to spend time with her family and friends. An avid reader and writer, she has many hobbies, including rock music, spoon collecting, painting, and riding her motorcycle. She hopes to continue acting, writing, and filmmaking as long as she can.- Actress
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Odessa Young is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the 2015 feature films Looking for Grace and The Daughter, the latter of which earned her an Aacta Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She won further accolades for her performance in the web series High Life in 2017. In 2018, she starred in the films Assassination Nation and A Million Little Pieces. That year, she also made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage. In 2020, she starred as Frannie in the post-apocalypse miniseries The Stand, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King, and opposite Elisabeth Moss in Shirley (2020), a film about the novelist Shirley Jackson.- Actor
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Shaun Evans was born on 6 March 1980 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Cashback (2006), Endeavour (2012) and Being Julia (2004).- Alisha Ilhaan Bo (born March 6, 1997), known professionally as Alisha Boe, is a Norwegian and American actress. She is known for portraying Jessica Davis in the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why.
Boe was born in Oslo, Norway, to a Somali father and a Norwegian mother, from Trondheim. She and her mother moved to Los Angeles when Alisha was seven years old because her mother married an American man. Boe attended Woodlake Elementary School and two middle schools: George Ellery Hale Middle School and Ivy Academia. She ended up graduating middle school at Hale. While she was in high school she attended El Camino Real High School commonly known as "ECR" or "Elco" located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California, where she attended their drama program. Her high school was also known for their alumni actors who had also been enrolled in their drama program. She attended Olin Virtual Academy for her junior and senior year of High School in order to balance her studies and work. She is the first Somali actress to hold a leading role in an American film since Iman.
Boe made her acting debut in 2008 in the horror film Amusement. In 2014, she guest-starred in season 5 of Modern Family and as Brynn Hendy opposite Halle Berry in the thriller series Extant. In 2015 she recurred in the Jason Reitman directed comedy Casual on Hulu, on CSI: Cyber as Grace Clarke opposite Patricia Arquette and as Janet in the Showtime hit series Ray Donovan. In 2016 she recurred as Gwen on season 6 of Teen Wolf. In 2017 the Indie Feature 68 Kill was released to great reviews where she starred alongside Matthew Gray Gubler and AnaLynne McCord. She landed her breakthrough role as Jessica Davis in the Netflix Original series 13 Reasons Why at the age of 19. - Actress
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Rosie Day was born in Cambridge. Her first film was playing Angel in Paul Hyett's feature film The Seasoning House for which she received positive acclaim and won four Best Actress awards. Acting since a young age she has starred in many TV shows and dramas such as ITV's Homefront, Harley Street, Grantchester, BBC's Siblings, Cuffs, and Channel 4's Misfits. In 2013, she made her feature film debut in the horror thriller The Seasoning House in the lead role of Angel, alongside Sean Pertwee, with CineVue stating: "Equally clear, is that Rosie Day has a long screen career ahead of her, as she effortlessly carries the entire film on her slight shoulders". Rosie was chosen as one of Screen Internationals Stars of Tomorrow. In 2015, she became a series regular on Sony and starz golden globe winning show Outlander . In 2017 she stars alongside Uma Thurman in Down a dark hall for Lionsgate. 'Butterfly Kisses' a film in which she was the lead, won the crystal bear for best feature at the 67th berlinale festival.- Actress
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In 2013, Australian New York City resident Yael Stone portrayed inmate 'Lorna Morello' in Orange Is the New Black.
Yael graduated from NIDA. From a young age, Yael has been lucky enough to work with Australia's premiere storytellers, luminaries of performance and visionaries behind the scenes in film, television and theatre.
Yael enjoys a rich career in Australia. A continuing collaboration with Australia's much-lauded director Neil Armfield culminated in the internationally-renowned production Diary of a Madman, in which she starred opposite Academy- Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush. Yael found her new home in New York City when the production played to critical acclaim at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
Yael is co-founder of The Cannery. Working from a studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the company supports new writing and innovative, creative exploits.- Actor
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Shaquille O'Neal is a retired professional American basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA on TNT. He is considered one of the greatest players in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. He was one of the tallest and heaviest players ever. O'Neal played for six teams over his 19-year career.
O'Neal's individual accolades include the 1999-2000 MVP award, the 1992-93 NBA Rookie of the Year award, 15 All-Star game selections, three All-Star Game MVP awards, three Finals MVP awards, two scoring titles, 14 All-NBA team selections, and three NBA All-Defensive Team selections. He is one of only three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year (2000); the other players are Willis Reed in 1970 and Michael Jordan in 1996 and 1998. Largely due to his ability to dunk the basketball, O'Neal ranks third all-time in field goal percentage (58.2%). O'Neal was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. He was elected to the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2017.
In addition to his basketball career, O'Neal has released four rap albums, with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum. O'Neal is an electronic music producer, and touring DJ, known as Diesel. He has appeared in numerous films and has starred in his own reality shows.- Actor
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Tom Arnold was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, to Linda (Graham) and Jack Arnold. After his parents divorced, he was raised by his father. In 1983, he got his first taste of stand-up comedy when he performed at open microphone nights at the University of Iowa. Tom's comedy career had its ups and downs over the next several years until 1988, when he entered the Minneapolis Comedy Competition and won first place. With this victory in hand, he decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a stand-up comedy career. Once he hit Los Angeles, things happened fast. That same year, he was hired as a staff writer for Roseanne Barr's TV sitcom Roseanne (1988) and began to appear regularly on the show as "Arnie Thomas". He and Roseanne Barr were married in 1990, with Arnold converting to Judaism prior to the marriage. They formed Rapello County Productions to develop projects for themselves.
The couple's marriage, together with their sometimes outrageous behavior, attracted media attention - and especially that of the tabloids - like a magnet. In 1994 conditions between the two deteriorated and they went through a very public, and acrimonious, divorce. Tom has been married twice since then and is the co-host of Fox Sports Net's talk show The Best Damn Sports Show Period (2001). He also does voiceover work, and provides the voice for the "Oven Mitt" character in the TV commercials for the Arby's restaurant chain.- Actor
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Jacob Bertrand was born on 6 March 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Ready Player One (2018), Rise of the Guardians (2012) and This Means War (2012).- Actress
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Andrea Hope Elson first realized her love for acting at age eleven when she played the lead in a sixth grade production of "Alice in Wonderland".
Born on March 6, 1969 in New York City, this green-eyed actress grew up traveling because of her father's job in advertising. Before she was ten years old, she had lived in New York, Chicago, San Diego and Los Angeles. While in San Diego, Andrea got an agent and won the first part she auditioned for. It was for a commercial, and, from then on, one acting job followed another. She landed guest-starring parts on Simon & Simon (1981), Silver Spoons (1982) and a co-starring role in the series Whiz Kids (1983).
Andrea auditioned and won the part of Lynn Tanner on the hit series ALF (1986). She continued to work for many years on various hit TV shows and Movies of the Week before leaving the entertainment business to focus on raising her family.- Director
Tyler Gillett was born on 6 March 1982 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. He is a director, known for V/H/S (2012), Ready or Not (2019) and Scream (2022).- Actor
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Edward Harry Deezen is an American actor and comedian. A native of Cumberland, Maryland, he initially began his career as a stand-up comedian before moving to California, where he would quickly become known for his roles as "nerd" characters in films including the Grease movies, Midnight Madness (1980), I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and WarGames (1983). He is also known for his various voice acting roles across multiple movies and TV series, most notably as Mandark in Dexter's Laboratory (1996), the Know-It-All Kid in The Polar Express (2004), and Ned in Kim Possible (2002).- Actress
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Virginia Gregg was born on 6 March 1916 in Harrisburg, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Operation Petticoat (1959), Crime in the Streets (1956) and Police Story (1973). She was married to Jaime Del Valle. She died on 15 September 1986 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Alan lived in Loughton, Essex for most of his life, until he left to pursue a career in comedy. He now lives in Islington in north London. He is the second of three children, born in Essex, and has an older brother and a younger sister. He was raised by his father, an accountant when his mother died when he was just 6 years old.
In 1982 he left Bancroft's School in Woodford Green with 8 O-levels. He then attended Loughton College of Further Education and got 4 GCSEs and two A levels, in Theatre Studies and Media Studies. He was taught theatre skills by Piers Gladhill.
Alan is best known for playing the title role in Jonathan Creek (1997) written by David Renwick, as a man who designs magic tricks for Adam Klaus but he also teams up with Maddy Magellan to solve baffling crimes. He is also known from the Abbey National adverts. Since 2003, he has appeared in a panel game show QI (2003).- Actress
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Anna Maria Horsford was born and raised in Harlem, New York. Her parents immigrated to the United States from the island nation Antigua & Barbuda, in the West Indies (then a British colony), during the 1940s. Anna grew up not really feeling American but not West Indian either, just somewhere in between. However, she vacationed in the Caribbean, and this stoked her desire to see the world. After high school she went to Stockholm, Sweden, to attend college.
Her mother always knew Anna would be something big because she was very talkative, and kept Anna enrolled in community centers, after-school programs, church events, etc. She auditioned for the New York High School of Performing Arts and was accepted. As she recollects, "My first big break came when I auditioned at the New York Shakespeare Festival."
Working in many different aspects of show business has allowed her to venture into areas other than acting, such as directing. She also has an Art Institute in upstate New York. Her father was a Garveyite (following the "back-to-Africa" teachings of Marcus Garvey), journeyed to Africa and lived in Liberia for five years. As Anna said, "He clearly taught us to love being black and not be ashamed of being black. We are all warriors and have to work to do."- Stunts
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As the highest paid stuntman in the world, Hal Needham broke 56 bones, his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth. His career has included work on 4500 television episodes and 310 feature films as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and ultimately, director.
He wrote and directed some of the most financially successful action comedy films, making his directorial debut with the box office smash, Smokey and the Bandit (1977). The ten features he directed include Hooper (1978) and The Cannonball Run (1981)... A real outlaw race from coast-to-coast, where he drove a fake ambulance that could peg the speedometer at 150 mph, on which the movie, "Cannonball Run", was based. He also set trends in movies - the first director to show outtakes during end credits.
Needham wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator (1976), jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial and was the first human to test the car airbag.
He invented and introduced to the film industry, the air ram, air bag, the car cannon turnover, the nitrogen ratchet, the jerk-off ratchet, rocket power and The Shotmaker Camera Car to make stunts safer and yet more spectacular at the same time.
Needham revolutionized the art of the stuntman - from new devices and techniques, to conceptualizing the organization and execution of complicated action set pieces. To a large degree, he elevated the stuntman and his craft to become important and critical elements in contemporary American Film.
He mentored a new generation of stuntmen and fought for the respect and recognition that stuntmen and stuntwomen deserve for their contribution to moviemaking.
Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. Needham owned a NASCAR race team and was the first team owner to use telemetry technology. His Skoal-Bandit race team was one of the most popular NASCAR teams ever - second only to that of the King, Richard Petty. Needham set Guinness World Records and was the financier and owner of The Budweiser Rocket Car. The car is now on display in the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum.
His many awards include an Emmy and an Academy Award.- Actor
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Born as Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr. in Jonesboro, Arkansas to Nadine (nee Steele) and Benjamin E. Castleberry. After the death of his father, he was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. When his mother remarried in 1956, he was adopted by his stepfather, Patrick Henry Murphy, taking his last name. The family moved to Clarendon Hills, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Ben Murphy graduated from Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois, and attended no fewer than eight colleges, including the University of the Americas in Mexico and the University of Illinois.- Actress
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Alberta Watson, well known to television audiences for her Gemini award-nominated role as Madeline on La Femme Nikita (1997), enjoys a long and diverse career in television and film.
A native of Toronto, Watson began performing with a local theater group as a teenager. She received a Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actress for one of her first movie roles, Mitzi in George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women (1978). Just a year later, she took home the Best Actress award at the Yorkton Film Festival for the short film "Exposure". Watson then headed to the United States, where she studied with Gene Lasko, made several films (including Michael Mann's stylish horror classic The Keep (1983), with Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne) and the TV movie Women of Valor (1986), with Susan Sarandon.
After returning to the East Coast, Watson took a chance on a low-budget independent film with then-novice director David O. Russell: the black comedy Spanking the Monkey (1994), which received the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and multiple Independent Spirit Awards. Watson won rave critical acclaim for her memorable performance as a depressed, deeply-disturbed mother who has an incestuous relationship with her son, played by Jeremy Davies.
The next year Watson went on to play the far more stable mother to a teenage computer genius in the box-office smash Hackers (1995), along with Angelina Jolie, and then the wife of mobster John Gotti in the Emmy-nominated Gotti (1996). She returned to Toronto and continued to seek out interesting roles in independent film, which led her to star in Shoemaker (1996), directed by Colleen Murphy. While the film was not widely released in the United States, Watson's performance did not go unnoticed -she received a second Genie nomination, this time in the Lead Actress category.
The following year she won critical praise for another independent film, Atom Egoyan's haunting The Sweet Hereafter (1997), in which she delivered a nuanced performance of an adulterous wife and mourning mother. For this film, she shared the award for Best Acting by an Ensemble (National Board of Review) with Ian Holm, Sarah Polley and the other members of an exceptional cast. The film received the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to earn both Academy Award and Genie nominations.
Meanwhile, Watson had begun filming the TV series La Femme Nikita (1997), which ran for four years, where she played a character that has become iconic, the tough anti-terrorist strategist Madeline. The cult series earned her a 1998 Gemini nomination and marked the start of an ever-growing fan base, with its main online presence at an unofficial site dedicated to her.
Although she has appeared in numerous major commercial releases and hit television shows, during the last ten years Watson has preferred independent (and especially Canadian) productions.
She added another prize-winning movie to her credits with the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, where she played Hedwig's twisted mom. The film won the Audience Award and Best Director Award at Sundance.
Watson starred later in The Wild Dogs (2002) with director Thom Fitzgerald, which took home top honors at the Atlantic Film Festival. She also appeared as Dr. Fischer in Sarah Polley's feature film directorial debut, the prize-winning Away from Her (2006), with Julie Christie. In addition, she starred opposite Colm Meaney in the feature film A Lobster Tale (2006), a quiet, low-key story which also won several awards.
Meanwhile, in television, Watson scored a second Gemini Award nomination for her performance in After the Harvest (2001), co-starring Sam Shepard. The second installment of Chasing Cain II: Face (2002), garnered her another Gemini nomination as Best Actress in a Leading Role (2003). After that, Watson filmed Choice: The Henry Morgentaler Story (2005), the story of controversial Canadian physician Dr. Henry Morgentaler, for which she was nominated for yet another Gemini Award in 2005.
While she had recurring roles in numerous television shows (The Newsroom (1996), Show Me Yours (2004), At the Hotel (2006), Angela's Eyes (2006)), she reached again more international TV audiences when she starred in the fourth season (2004-2005) of the hit Fox series 24 (2001), opposite Kiefer Sutherland and William Devane, playing the role of Erin Driscoll, the head of a counter-terrorist unit. She had the chance to play a different boss-woman (a Minister, and recovering alcoholic) when she joined the cast of other popular prime-time drama, CBC's The Border (2008), as a recurring guest star.
Most recently Watson was cast as the voice of 350-pound Mary Rutherford in the animated film The Spine (2009) (produced and directed by Academy Award-winning animator Chris Landreth), which took home the Best Film Award at the 2009 Melbourne International Animation Festival. In 2008, Alberta Watson received a Career Achievement Award from the Boston-based Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film.
Watson died on March 21, 2015 due to complications from cancer at Kensington Hospice in Toronto; she was 60 years old.- Elise Eberle was born on 6 March 1993 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. She is an actress, known for Shameless (2011), Salem (2014) and The Last Tycoon (2016).
- Karyn Kupcinet was born on 6 March 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Gertrude Berg Show (1961) and Hawaiian Eye (1959). She died on 28 November 1963 in West Hollywood, California, USA.
- Actor John Smith was born Robert Errol Van Orden in Los Angeles. He began his career singing with The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir, a group which appeared in two Bing Crosby films, Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945).
His agent Henry Willson, who also gave Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson their names, changed Van Orden's name to "John Smith". Robert Hofler, author of "The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson", reports that an actress identified as Pocahontas Crowfoot was in the courtroom when the name change was granted.
In We're No Angels (1955), Smith had a small role as "Arnaud", the ship's doctor. Aldo Ray, observing the doctor in full dress whites, says "he looks like a glass of milk". John Smith's other film credits include Circus World (1964) and Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972). Smith also appeared in the television westerns Cimarron City (1958) and Laramie (1959). - Actress
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She is a French film and television actress, best known for her roles in Tout ce qui brille (2007) and, in 2006, Paris, je t'aime and Sheitan.
She has already been nominated for 9 awards and won 4, including a César (french movies award) in 2012 as most promising actress.
She met her husband on the set of the movie "Un Prophète"(2008).- Actress
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Daughter of Pathe screenwriter Peggy Prior and adopted daughter of the poet, essayist, author, and screenwriter Joseph Moncure March. Lori March began acting on stage in the 1940s. She later married the vocal performer Alexander Scourby, best known for his famous reading of "The Bible". Lori March Williams passed away in Connecticut in 2013. She is buried in the Church of the Transfiguration Columbarium Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.- Mykal-Michelle Harris was born on 6 March 2012 in Delran, Burlington County, New Jersey. She is an actress, known for Cheaper by the Dozen (2022), Mixed-ish (2019) and Big Little Lies (2017).
- Birgundi Angel Baker is an American actor, singer and dancer from Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Howard University's Musical Theatre Program. Upon moving to Chicago, she attended the Launch Showcase. After the showcase, Birgundi signed with Gray Talent Group and broke into the world of television of film. Birgundi Angel Baker has been listed by Refinery29 as one of the "Top Actresses To Look Out For in 2018".
- Joel Palmer began his career at the tender age of three with an appearance as Lyle the Shoeshine Boy in "Hello Dolly". Soon after, he landed two national television commercials for Mattel Toys and followed by advertisements for Woodward's and Scott Paper. Joel appeared in "Knight Moves", his first feature film, after being in show business for less than one year. Next came a principal role in a film festival production, "Swindled". His first big role came in "Morning Glory" in which he appears with Christopher Reeve and Deborah Raffin as his mother. Joel's growing list of credits includes "Liar, liar", "Change of Heart", "The Man Upstairs", and "A Child Too Many". He has appeared in episodes of "Street Justice", "The Hat Squad", "Madison" and "Outer Limits"; he has co-starred in "The X-Files" and "The Commish" (both twice), the TV series "Poltergeist: The Legacy", and "Lonesome Dove". He has co-hosted a children's 5-day-TV-special, "Hopscotch", and guest-starred on "Sesame Street". Joel co-starred in "Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog", a feature film for 20th Century Fox, directed by the late Phillip Borsos. "Yellow Dog" stars Jesse Bradford as Joel's brother, Bruce Davison as his father, and Mimi Rogers as his mother. Joel also starred in the ABC made-for-TV movies "Someone Else's Child" (Lisa Hartman Black), "Freefall" (William Devane) and "Seduction in a Small Town" (Melissa Gilbert). Last year Joel made an exciting move in his career by signing on with one of L.A.'s best known child managers, Lynda Goodfriend. (His Vancouver agent is Tyman Stewart from The Characters Talent Agency). He lives with his parents, one sister, one brother, three dogs and a cat in The Fraser Valley, just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Shuler Hensley is an American film and stage actor and singer who is well-known for playing Frankenstein's monster in many works, including the 2004 cult classic film Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. He also played Mr. Hyde on set before getting dubbed over by Robbie Coltrane. He also acted in theatrical productions including Oklahoma and playing Kerchak from Tarzan the Musical.- Actress
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Sohina Sidhu was born on 6 March 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Dodge is Dead (2022), FBI (2018) and Evil (2019).- Actor
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Vincent Gale received his stage training at the Royal Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland, and his credits include Beggars in the House of Plenty, in which he appeared with Babz Chula, Criminals in Love, The Miracle Worker, and The Relapse.
He won a Best Dramatic Actor Award from The Alberta Motion Picture Industry for his role of "Jimmy" in Bordertown Café.- Born at St. Judes Hospital at 8:45 am, in Fullerton, California, Suzanne Crough is the youngest of eight children. Her sibling's names are Lynda, Trudy, Kathleen, Loyleen, Gail, Timothy, and Patrick. She appeared in several commercials before she was cast as Tracy Partridge. After "The Partridge Family", Suzanne played Stevie Friedman on the short-lived drama "Mulligan's Stew" on NBC in 1977. She also appeared in "Teenage Father" (a short film that won an Academy Award), several television movies, television pilots, commercials, and a stage production of "The Bad Seed".
Suzanne Jesse Crough was born in Fullerton, California on March 6, 1963. Her parents are Joseph Wilfred Crough and Anne O'Malley Crough. She is of Scottish and Canadian descent. Her two brothers are also actors. Suzanne began her acting career at the age of 5 1/2. Her oldest brother was in "The Andy Griffith Show" as one of Opie's friends. That is kind of what convinced her mother into letting Suzanne try acting, too. The producer would lock her in the fake jail cell to take a nap. He told Suzanne's mother to get her in acting. He thought Suzanne was funny, and she was not shy. Suzanne wanted to try acting. Her mother thought she was too young at first. Her brothers were eight years older than she was. Her mom finally gave in to the pressure from Suzanne consistently asking. Suzanne's early roles include commercials for Kraft and a Mattel Kiddles commercial (which was the first thing she ever auditioned for). She landed the role of Tracy Partridge on The Partridge Family after three callbacks and four interviews total. While on The Partridge Family, Suzanne did about 30 commercials during that time. She also auditioned for the western movie "Shoot Out" with Gregory Peck and got the role, but sadly "The Partridge Family" producers wouldn't let her do it, so the role went to Dawn Lyn.
While on set, Suzanne attended school with Danny Bonaduce and Brian Forster. While filming The Partridge Family, she was able to work a total of eight hours, with three of them in school. When she wasn't needed during the season, Suzanne went to school on the set. When The Partridge Family was on break, she went to public school. She recalls trying to be normal but couldn't. The kids would follow her all over the playground. Some were nice, and some were mean. She took her friends to the set a couple of times, but they weren't used as extras in the show. Her friends from school thought it was cool she was on TV. They wanted to go with her to the set and they couldn't understand why she wasn't in love with David. She said he was more like a brother than anything else.
Suzanne also had a friendship with Brian Forster while filming. She remembered the day Jeremy Gelbwacks left the show and was replaced by Brian Forster. She showed up for work and was told "Suzanne, this is Brian. He is playing Chris." Onset, Suzanne and Brian came up with this idea for a 'junior marriage' as a joke. There was an ice cream truck on set that they would have, and they would ride their bikes around together. She also had a passion for horses growing up. Suzanne got her first horse when she was about 9 or 10. She took riding lessons during her days on "The Partridge Family" and showed horses and had them up till the age of 18.
After 'The Partridge Family', she made several TV movies and made many guest appearances on television shows like 'Goober and the Ghost Chasers', 'The Partridge Family 2200 A.D.', 'Mulligan's Stew', 'Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway', 'Fred Flintstone and Friends', 'The New Adventures Of Wonder Woman' and 1980's 'Children of Divorce' which would be her last on-screen role. After her acting career, she graduated from Pierce College and would go on to own and operate a bookstore in southern California. She still owned both tambourines that Tracy played and many of The Partridge Family albums used in the show.
Sadly, on April 27, 2015, Suzanne passed away at her home in Laughlin, Nevada. She was survived by her husband William Condray, and two daughters, Samantha and Alexandra. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. Suzanne and her husband were going to celebrate their 30th anniversary in July 2015. Crough's cause of death was arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, a rare form of cardiomyopathy. To many, she is forever known as the adorable, freckled-faced Partridge. - Eli Marienthal was born on March 6, 1986, in Santa Monica, California, though he has lived most of his life in Berkeley. His career started in Bay Area theatres, where he has performed in "Missing Persons," "The Cryptogram," "Hecuba," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Every 17 Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy," and "The Life of Galileo." His parents' names are Joe and Lola, and he currently lives with his mother in Berkeley, though during the 3rd and 4th grades he spent some time in Paris with his father. He graduated from the private East Bay French-American School, where all the students learn to speak fluent French and attend classes in two languages.
- Judy Loe was born Judith Margaret Loe in Urmston, Manchester, England, to Nancy (Jones), a department store worker, and Norman Scarborough Loe, who worked in equipment business. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, England, with a BA in English and Drama.
With her late husband, actor Richard Beckinsale, she is the mother of actress Kate Beckinsale. - Lara Cox was born on 6 March 1978 in Canberra, Australia. She is an actress, known for Kangaroo Jack (2003), The Makeover (2009) and Heartbreak High (1994). She is married to Jeff Springer. They have two children.
- James Saito is an American actor of Japanese descent, best known as the original Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and as Dr Chen in the ABC series Eli Stone (2008). Along with film and television, James has worked extensively in theater, including the Broadway productions of The King and I (1997) and David Henry Hwang's Golden Child (1998). Off-Broadway plays include Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy (2014) at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center and Julia Cho's Durango at The Public Theater for which he won an Obie award in 2007. He was born in Los Angeles, California and received a degree in theater at UCLA. James now lives in New York City and studied with Uta Hagen at HB studio. He was in the last group of students who studied with Sanford Meisner on the island of Bequia in the Grenadines and then continued with Mr. Meisner in North Hollywood. He worked with Stella Adler in her scene study and script interpretation classes. James wanted to learn as many styles and techniques of acting because he found that different roles or situations may need a different tool to find the truth or to play it more effectively. So along with these 3 legendary teachers, he also studied with Milton Katselas, Wynn Handman, Peggy Feury, Jose Quintero and Nina Foch.
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Patricia Donahue was born on 6 March 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Wide World of Mystery (1973), Thriller (1973) and Department S (1969). She was married to Euan Lloyd, Sam Donahue and George Gerald Homer Hogan. She died on 11 June 2012 in the USA.- Melanie Silver and her twin sister Elaine, were born on March 6, 1988 in California, USA to Lance and Claire Silver. She is and her twin are know for playing the same characters in both General Hospital (1993) and The Flintstones (1994). They swapped acting positions in and out of the same roles. She is best known for playing Pepples Flintstone, Fred and Wilma's daughter and Bamm-Bamm Rubble's playmate in the 1994 classic. Melanie left acting and started her studies to become an architect.
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Rochelle Hudson was born on 6 March 1916 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Imitation of Life (1934), The Officer and the Lady (1941) and Born Reckless (1937). She was married to Robert Louis Mindell, Charles Kenneth Brust Jr., Richard Francis Hyland and Harold Edward Mexia Thompson. She died on 17 January 1972 in Palm Desert, California, USA.- Actress
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Clara Lago was born on March 6, 1990 in Madrid, a suburb of the Spanish capital of Madrid. Her father was a graphic designer, and her mother was a writer-a storyteller, so that craving for the creative professions was passed to the girl by inheritance. One of the friends of her father, who worked as a television producer, invited her to try in the cinema. As she was still very young, she took the initiative as interesting game, the casting was acting freely, easily communicated with the chambers and employees of the television station, so quite easy passed the audition. Acting career Clara Lago began when she was barely 8 years old. The girl took part in the filming of the television series Partners, which was released on television screens in 1998. After 2 years, starred in the TV series Hospital Central (2000), and is voiced by another actress in the TV movie Terca vida (2000) In cinema Clara debuted in 2002. 12-year-old girl played a major role in the film El viaje de Carol (2002) by the Spanish Director Imanol Uribe. For playing this motion picture Carla received a Goya award as best actress. Then again followed by a cameo role in the film La vida que te espera (2004) in 2004, Arena en los bolsillos (2006) in 2006, El club de los suicidas (2007) in 2007 and The Hanged Man (2008) in 2008. In the same period he published two series featuring Clara Lago is quite popular in Spain Clara Lago, where the actress plays the woman, as well as crime series-drama Lex (2008). Breakthrough for Clara Lago was the psychological Thriller The Hidden Face (2011), released in 2011. She got the main female role Belem, girls womanizer-conductor, whom she decides to teach, but substitutes itself. After this picture of the young actress offered another main role of Ginevra in the continuation of the acclaimed melodrama [link=tt1797504. The film was nominated to receive the prestigious Goya award, and Lago has received numerous rave reviews. Interestingly, in this film she performed as a singer, taking part in the recording of the soundtrack. The film includes 2 songs in her performance: La Cama and Aunque tú no lo sepas. Also in 2012 he published psychological fiction drama The End (2012) in which Clara Lago again gets the main role - the girls of eve, which remains one of the last surviving people on the planet, she was destined to see disappear to her friends and family. The film had quite good commercial success. The latest work Clara Lago today is the family Comedy Spanish Affair (2014), which has taken in $ 77 million, breaking all records of Spanish films. Clara plays one of two main roles - a girl Amaya from the Basque Country. Clara Lago enjoys dancing and regularly attends a dance Studio, with a particular interest in Pilates. In addition, she is the face of companies like Hoss Intropia and Color. Also participated in promotional photo shoots and videos brands such as InStyle, YoDona, Telva and Elle.