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  1. Started by COP11,

    Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host, and bon vivant. Early life and family Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama to William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugenia Bankhead. She was named after her paternal grandmother. Her mother died as a result of blood poisoning on February 23, 1902, shortly after Bankhead's birth. Bankhead has been described as "an extremely homely child", overweight and with a deep, husky voice resulting from chronic bronchitis. However, others described her as an exhibitionist, performer, personality, and star from the very beginning. Bankhead came from the powerful Bankhead…

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  2. Started by puma,

    The beautiful Kirsten Johnston, the great and funny star from 3rd Rock From the Sun. Kristen Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Johnston is 6'1". Johnston was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of a real estate agent and a Republican state senator from Wisconsin. Johnston was raised mostly in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where she attended St. Eugene's Catholic Grade School and Whitefish Bay High School. She spent some …

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  3. Started by dawson,

    Bridget Kathryn Regan (born February 3, 1982; San Diego County, California) is an American film, television and theater actress currently portraying lead character Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker. Career Since 2006, she has appeared in several movies and television shows. Her filmography includes The Wedding Album, Blinders, Supreme Courtships, The Babysitters and the Sex and the City movie. She also had guest appearances on the TV shows Love Monkey, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, American Experience, Six Degrees, The Black Donnellys and New Amsterdam. In 2008, Regan began filming Legend of the Seeker, a television show based on Terry Goo…

  4. Started by LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE,

    Barbara Payton (November 16, 1927 – May 8, 1967) was an American film actress. Early life and careerBorn Barbara Lee Redfield, in Cloquet, Minnesota, she was the daughter of restaurateurs, and raised in Odessa, Texas. In 1945, at age seventeen, she headed for Hollywood in search of a career in movies and was eventually placed under contract by Universal Studios where she began appearing in bit parts. After being discovered by James Cagney and his producer brother William, Payton starred in Cagney’s Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in 1950. She signed a contract with Cagney’s production company. Personal life In 1951, while engaged to movie actor Franchot Tone, Payton proposed mar…

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  5. Started by LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE,

    Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922)[1] is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, Day was the top-ranking female box office star of a…

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  6. Started by sarnic,

    Ashley Benson stars as Hanna Marin, who became the school's new "it" girl after Alison disappeared. But being at the top of the social ladder is not all it is cracked up to be, especially when someone is out there reminding Hanna of how things used to be. Born and raised in California, Benson developed a passion for theater at the age of 3, began acting when she was 9 – working mostly in commercials – and then quickly made the transition into film and television. Most recently in television, she was a series regular on ABC's "Eastwick," playing Rebecca Romijn's daughter, and she starred in the Lifetime Television movie "Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal." Her addi…

  7. Started by Minerva13,

    Felicity Huffman (Born-Felicity Kendall Huffman) Date of Birth: December 9,1962 Place of Birth: Bedford,New York,USA Height: 1.65 cm Years active: 1978-present All Movie: 61 Felicity Kendall Huffman (born December 9,1962) is an American film,stage,and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night (1998-2000), which earned her an Golden Globe Award nomination,and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate Housewives (2004-2012),which has earned her an Emmy Award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Huffman

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  8. Started by Nefertiti,

    Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown (1988–1998), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal (2004–2008), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred in several major films throughout the mid 1960s to early 1980s such as The Sand Pebbles, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, and Gandhi, receiving an Oscar nomination for her role in Starting Over. Her later career includes…

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  9. Started by LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE,

    Jemima Rooper (born 24 October 1981, in Hammersmith, London, England) is an English actress. BackgroundLondon-born Rooper is the daughter of TV journalist Alison Rooper. She attended Redcliffe Primary School in Chelsea, London and then, at age 12, went to Godolphin and Latymer girls' school. While working on The Famous Five she passed eight GCSEs with A* and A grades. From there she went to sixth form college where she got three A-grade A levels Work Rooper expressed a wish to be an actress at the age of nine and contacted an agent.[1] Her first professional roles were in the 1993 film The Higher Mortals and the 1994 film Willie's War. In 1996 she appeared in all episodes…

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    Born January 30 1995 Oregon United States[1] Occupation Actress Years active 2006

  11. Started by Minerva13,

    Tamzin Outhwaite Date of Birth:5 Nov.1970 Place of Birth:England Height:173cm All Movie:25 Hotel Babylon...Rebecca Mitchell Cassandra's Dream...Burns' Date Paradox...D.I. Rebecca Flint

  12. Started by COP11,

    Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is a British American actress. She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, also an Academy Award winner. The two sisters are among the last surviving female stars from Hollywood's Golden Age. Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Early life She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter Augustus de Havilland (1872-1968), a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and Lilian Augusta Ruse (1886-1975), a British actress known by her stage name of Lillian Fontaine. Her parents married in 1914…

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  13. Started by bardotek,

    I can't believe there was no topic about this lovely lady! Julie Andrews Born Julia Elizabeth Wells 1 October 1935 (1935-10-01) (age 74) Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England Occupation Actress, singer, author Years active 1949

  14. Started by Twinkle,

    From Wikipedia Born Estelle Merle Thompson 18 February 1911(1911-02-18) Bombay (now Mumbai), British India Died November 23, 1979 (aged 68) Malibu, California, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1928–1973 Spouse(s) Alexander Korda (divorced)(1939–1945) Lucien Ballard (divorced)(1945–1949) Bruno Pagliai (1957–1973) (divorced) 2 adopted children Robert Wolders (1975–1979) (her death) Merle Oberon (18 or 19 February 1911[1] – 23 November 1979) was an Anglo-Indian-born American and British film actress. She began her film career in British films, and a prominent role, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), brought her attention. Leading r…

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  15. Started by Sergenius,

    Olivia d'Abo Date of Birth: 22 January 1969, Paddington, London, England, UK Birth Name: Olivia Jane d'Abo Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Spouse: Patrick Leonard (1 January 1995 - present) 1 child Olivia is a British actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Karen Arnold in The Wonder Years and Nicole Wallace, the recurring villain in Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She has worked in film and television since she was 13 and written and recorded her songs for almost as long. "It's been tricky and quite a challenge for me to balance the two. Ironically, I've been given the gifts and talent of both of my parents combined. Though most people know me as an…

  16. Started by sunal,

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  17. Started by brianwp,

    Jean Paige Turco (born May 17, 1965) is an American actress. She is known for playing April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. /monthly_05_2010/post-33782-0-1446013799-61897_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="2583455" alt="post-33782-0-1446013799-61897_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="133.16">

  18. Started by JDC7,

    From Rotten Tomatoes: Caroline Munro (born January 16, 1950 in Windsor, Berkshire) is a British actress and model best known for her many appearances in science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s. Career According to Munro, her career took off in 1966 when her mother and photographer friend entered some headshots of her to Britain's The Evening News "Face of the Year" contest. "I wanted to do art. Art was my love. I went to Art School in Brighton but I was not very good at it. I just did not know what to do. I had a friend at the college who was studying photography and he needed somebody to photograph and he asked me. Unbeknownst to me, he sent the ph…

  19. Started by COP11,

    Norma was a Canadian-American actress born on Aug. 10, 1902 in Montreal. She was one of the most popular actresses from the 1920's until her retirement in 1942. Today she is celebrated as one of films first feminist pioneers. She was the first film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin onscreen. Norma moved to New York with her mother and sister in 1920. She started modeling and then became an extra in films for several years. She signed a contract with Louis B. Mayer and when MGM started, she beacame their biggest box office attraction. In 1930 she won am Academy Award for Best Actress in The Divorcee. After a few box office flops in th…

  20. Started by Pipokita,

    Jacinda Barrett (born 2 August 1972) is an Australian American model turned actress. She first became known to audiences as a cast member on The Real World: London before appearing in films such as Ladder 49, The Namesake, The Human Stain, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Barrett was previously engaged to American actor Chris Hardwick, host of MTV's Singled Out. On 29 December 2004, she married American actor Gabriel Macht. The couple had their first child, a girl named Satine Anais Geraldine Macht, on 20 August 2007 in Los Angeles. Barrett enjoys skydiving, explaining 'it gets scarier the more you do it. After a while you realize you're flinging yourself out of…

  21. Started by Ribelin2000,

    I can't believe a thread has never been done here on Terry Farrell, best known as Jadzia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also played Reggie on the TV sitcom Becker, with Ted Danson, and was Keith Gordon's love interest in 1986's Back to School, with Rodney Dangerfield.

  22. Started by brianwp,

    Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo (born January 8, 1965) – known professionally as Michelle Forbes – is an American actress who has built a career of work in television and independent film and has acted in productions in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Forbes first gained attention from her dual role in daytime soap opera Guiding Light, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Although she has appeared in significant roles in movies such as Escape From LA, Kalifornia and Swimming with Sharks, Forbes is perhaps best known for her recurring appearances on genre and drama shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Homicide: Life on the S…

  23. Started by bardotek,

    Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Jesi, Province of Ancona) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Jesi, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi. Early career Virna Lisi began her film career in her teens. She was discovered by two Neapolitan producers (Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce) in Paris. Her debut was in La corda d'acciaio (The line of steel, 1953). Initially, she did musical films, like in E Napoli canta (Napoli sings, 1953) and the successful Questa è la vita (1954, with the popular Totò). Nonetheless, soon Virna Lisi became a figure whose beauty was more valued than her talent, like in Le diciottenni and Lo scapolo films of 195…

  24. Started by brianwp,

    Born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, she was educated at Sternhold College, the Italia Conti Academy stage school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. An actress who made the most of her talents, notably in the films directed by her husband, Bryan Forbes, she made her first appearance in film as a teenager in Personal Affairs in 1953. There followed a number of period roles, including the heroine in The Wrong Box (1966); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969; The Raging Moon (1971), as a young woman in a wheelchair, and International Velvet (1978). From a variety background, she acted on stage and became well known for TV ads for Fairy Liquid. She was also…

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  25. Started by Nefertiti,

    Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress, primarily known for her role as the character 'Anita Campbell-Green' in 101 Dalmatians and Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck. She also appeared in the 2009 BBC remake, The Day of the Triffids, with her mother Vanessa Redgrave. Richardson was born in London to a theatrical family, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave. Her sister was the late actress Natasha Richardson, and through her, she was the sister-in-law of actor Liam Neeson. She is the niece of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave …

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