Actresses
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July 20th, 1938-November 29th, 1981 Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947). A well received performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and helped her to make the transition from a child performer. She then starred in the musicals West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962). She also received Academy Award nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love With the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued successfully with films such as Bob & Carol &…
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Melissa Barrera Martínez (born 4 July 1990) is a Mexican actress. In Mexico, she is known for roles in the telenovelas Siempre tuya Acapulco (2013), Tanto amor (2015), and the Netflix series Club de Cuervos (2017). Outside of Mexico, she is known for her lead roles in the Starz drama series Vida (2018–2020), the musical film In the Heights (2021), and the slasher films Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023).[1][3][4] https://www.instagram.com/melissabarreram/?hl=fr
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Mary Jane West was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 17, 1892, to parents involved in prizefighting and vaudeville. Mae herself worked on the stage and in vaudeville from the time she was five years old. She never was academically inclined because she was too busy performing. She studied dance as a child, and by the time she was 14 she was billed as "The Baby Vamp" for her performances on stage. Later Mae began writing her own plays. One of those plays, "Sex", landed her in jail for ten days on obscenity charges in 1926. Two years later her play "Diamond Lil" became a huge Broadway success. Mae caught the attention of the Hollywood studios and was given her first movi…
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Welcome to the Natalie Portman thread-enjoy Natalie Portman was born on June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel as the only child of a Doctor (father) and an artist (mother, who also acts as Natalie's agent). Natalie's family left Israel for Washington when she was three years old and eventualy settled in New York. Natalie graduated from high school with honors, and her academic achievements allowed her to attend Harvard. She was discovered by a Revlon agent in a Long Island pizza parlor at the age of 11, has been a strict vegetarian since she was 8 Received a Psychology degree from Harvard in June of 2003.
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I couldn't seem to find a thread on her so I decided to make one. Date of Birth 10 October 1966, Chengdu, China Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) Mini Biography: Born in the Szechwan province of China in 1966, Ling Bai began her show business career when she was in grade school with the school choir. When she was 14, she enlisted in the Chinese People's Liberation Army where she spent three years in a performance troop entertaining soldiers stationed in Tibet. After her service, Ling became a performer in a local theater in Beijing where she eventually became involved in the pro-Democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. As a result of her involvement, Ling emigrated to …
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Erica Durance, age 26, is one of Smallville's newest additions, appearing as Lois Lane in 13 episodes of the show's fourth season beginning September 22, 2004. Also sometimes credited as Erica Parker, she has appeared in episodes of Andromeda and The Chris Isaak Show. She was also in the movie "House of the Dead." "Of all the different female leads in comics, Lois Lane was always my favorite because she was so involved," she said in a New York Post interview. "She was always so involved in everything going on — she's a go-getter, she was really in there, quite tough and kind of a hero in her own right." Previous Credits: (Television) Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, The Chris…
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Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American fashion model and actress, best known for her lead role in the short-lived Fox sitcom Ben And Kate (2012–2013). She has been cast in the lead role of Anastasia Steele in the upcoming film adaptation Fifty Shades Of Grey, set for release in 2014. She is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. LACMA 2013 Art + Film Gala, Los Angeles, Nov 2 '13
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French actress ( Boulogne-Billancourt 5/1/1968). 1992—1994: Hélène et les Garçons 1995—1996: Le Miracle de l’amour 1996: Portrait chinois 1996—2004: Les Vacances de l’amour 1999: Island détectives 2007—2010: Baie des flamboyants 2008: SOS 18 2011- Les Mystères de l’amour 2012: Le Jour où tout a basculé 2012: Si près de chez vous 2013: R.I.S Police scientifique 2013: Petits secrets entre voisins
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Mariana Ximenes do Prado Nuzzi, commonly known as Mariana Ximenes (born on April 26, 1981 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actress. In 2003, she was one of the lead actors in the Rede Globo telenovela Chocolate com Pimenta, where she portrayed the character Ana Francisca. In 2005, she played the role of Raíssa in the Rede Globo telenovela América. In 2006, she was one of the lead actors in the TV Globo telenovela Cobras & Lagartos, playing the role of Bel; and in 2008, one of the stars of A Favorita, by the Rede Globo. She currently portrays Clara, the main villain of Passione, by the Rede Globo. She received critical acclaim for her role in this telenovela. Mariana Xime…
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Welch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada and Josephine Sarah Hall. Her father, who immigrated from La Paz, Bolivia, was an aerospace engineer of Castilian Spanish descent; her mother was an Irish-American.[1] In 1942, Armando Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California. The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Welch grew up. She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," and "Miss San Diego." In 1957, she was named "Miss Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair. After a…
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Monica Vitti Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931 in Rome) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni. Training and early career While a teenager she acted in amateur productions, then trained as an actor at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and at Pitman's, where she played a teen in a charity performance of Niccodemi's La memica. She toured Germany with an Italian acting troupe and her first stage appearance in Rome was for a production of Niccolò Machiavelli's La Mandragola. Vitti's first film role was in Ettore Scola's Ridere Ridere Ridere (1954). In 1957 she joined Michelangelo Antonioni's T…
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Tippi Hedren Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress with a career spanning six decades. She is best known for her role as Melanie Daniels in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983. Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, and they share credits on six films, notably Pacific Heights (1990). Contents Biography Hedren was born in New Ulm, Minnesota to a Swedish father and a German-Norwegian mother. Her father ran a small general store in the small town of Lafayette, Minnesota. Her father gave her the moniker "Tippi"…
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Vivien Leigh Born: November 5, 1913 Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India (now India) Died: July 8, 1967, aged 53 London, England Spouse(s): Herbert Leigh Holman (1932-1940) Laurence Olivier (1940-1960) Academy Awards Best Actress 1939 Gone with the Wind 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Tony Awards Best Leading Actress in a Musical 1963 Tovarich Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967) was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, fre…
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Early life and education Zegler was born on May 3, 2001,[4] in Hackensack, New Jersey, at the Hackensack University Medical Center. Her mother is Gina Zegler, and she has an older sister, Jacqueline.[5] Her mother is of Colombian descent,[6] and her father is of Polish descent.[7][8][9] Zegler was raised in Clifton, New Jersey, where she attended St. Philip the Apostle Preparatory School. She then attended the Catholic all-girls college-preparatory Immaculate Conception High School, where she starred in the school's musicals all four years: as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2016), Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2017),[10] Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (2018), and P…
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Nicola Mary Coughlan (/ˈkɒklən/; born 9 January 1987) is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles as Clare Devlin in Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls (2018–2022) and Penelope Featherington in Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020–present). Early life Coughlan was born on 9 January 1987 in Galway, Ireland, and grew up in Oranmore. At the age of five, when watching her older sister performing in a school play, she decided to become an actress. She attended Scoil Mhuire for primary school and Calasanctius College for secondary school. She graduated with a degree in English and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She then we…
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Biography: Amy Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress. Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, the daughter of American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, who was a U.S. serviceman stationed in Italy. She grew up as one of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado and attended Douglas County High School. Adams was raised in the LDS religion, although her family left the church after Adams's parents divorced when she was eleven. While working at the famous dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota, she was discovered by a movie producer. Shortly after she was cast in her first comedic role in Drop Dead Gorgeous. Having appear…
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New Actress from the movie The Watch (2012).
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Age: 18 Hometown: Sydney Alycia Debnam-Carey is an Australian actress from Sydney, known for Into the Storm (2014), At the Tattooist (2010) and The Devil's Hand (2014). She has also appeared in the TV series, Galyntine, Martha’s New Coat, McLeod's Daughters, Dream Life, Next Stop Hollywood and The 100 as Lexa. On December 1, 2014, it was announced that Debnam-Carey had been cast as Ashley, one of the lead roles, in the AMC series Cobalt, the official spin-off of The Walking Dead. Source : Wikipédia
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Ellie has recently filmed the role of Lydia Bennet in the forthcoming feature Pride and Prejudice and Zombies directed by Burr Steers. She will soon begin rehearsals for the role of Dinah in Maria Friedman's production of High Society for the Old Vic Theatre. Ellie also features in Carol Morley's film The Falling which premiered at the 2014 London Film Festival. Her television experience includes The Musketeers for BBC1 and A Mother's Son for ITV1. Ellie's further theatre experience includes the role of Young Jenny in Trevor Nunn's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Jameson Empire Awards 2015, London, Mar 29…
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Emilia Annis I. Jones (born 23 February 2002) is an English actress, singer, and lyricist. She is most known for performing the lead role in the 2021 film CODA as Ruby Rossi in which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress. She is also known for playing Kinsey Locke in the Netflix series Locke & Key (2020–), while also having additional early roles in television such as Doctor Who and Utopia, and lead characters in films like Brimstone, Ghostland, and Horrible Histories. PhotoShoot for "Who What Wear" Magazine - 16 Aug 2021
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Jessica Alba Jessica Marie Alba was born in Pomona, California, on April 28, 1981. Her father, who was in the Air Force, moved the family all across the country. Jessica had always wanted to be an actress from the age of five. She took her first acting class at the age of 12. In 1993, Jessica made her movie debut in Camp Nowhere when she got lucky when one of the main actresses dropped out. Jessica eagerly took over the part. After her first movie, Jessica took numerous smaller jobs: commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penny, a reoccurring role in "The Secret World of Alex Mac" in '94, and a pilot of "Flipper" (Jessica spent 1995 filming the f…
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