Actresses
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Birth NameJazzlyn Antonia Marae Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Jazzlyn Marae is a Singer, Dancer, Musician, Model and actor Country of origin: Portland, Oregon
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Date Of Birth March 25, 1960 BiographyBrenda Strong is best known for her roles as Mary Alice Young on the ABC comedy-drama series "Desperate Housewives" and on another ABC comedy-drama "Sports Night" as Sally Sasser.In 1978, Strong graduated from Sandy Union High School in Sandy, Oregon and later moved to Arizona to study music in Arizona State University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in musical theater. In 1980, Strong won the title of Miss Arizona. In 1984, she appeared in Billy Crystal’s "You Look Marvelous" music video, and then transitioned into minor roles in known television series, such as "St. Elsewhere", "MacGyver", "Cheers", "Dallas", "Star T…
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Born on Nov. 9, 1868 in Cobourg, Ontario. She was a Canadian actress and a depression-era film star. Dressler was comedian early on in her childhood and started acting when she was 14. In 1892, she made her Broadway debut. She became a huge vaudeville star in the early 1900's. During the Actor's Equity strike in New York City in 1919, the Chorus Equity Association was formed and Dressler became the groups first president. She was later blacklisted by theater production companies for her strong stance in labor disputes. A MGM screenwriter helped put her back in films and audiences loved her wit and snappy comebacks. She became a popular comic among her peers. She won…
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Joana Preiss is a French actress, director, singer, and performer. Born 22 May 1972, Marseille,France Height:1.73 cm Years active 1997-present
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Dorothy Dalton (September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972) was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was in Hollywood. Career Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dalton made her movie debut in 1914 in Pierre of the Plains, co-starring Edgar Selwyn, followed by the lead role in Across the Pacific that same year. In 1915, she appeared with William S. Hart in The Disciple. This production came before she left Triangle Film Corporation and w…
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Date of Birth 18 July 1920, Los Angeles County, California, USA Date of Death 31 August 1995, Paradise, Butte County, California, USA Birth Name Mildred Blanche Coles Mini Biography Mildred Coles was a former beauty queen and a Western character actress. Her favorite film was - Oklahoma Badlands (1948) which starred Alan "Rocky" Lane. An RKO starlet of the early 1940s, Mildred Coles ran the gamut from playing such "fallen" girls as the title role in Play Girl (1940) and a dysfunctional wife in the exploitation classic Bob and Sally (1948), to appearing as Allan "Rocky" Lane's leading lady in three Republic Westerns (1948). A typical road-show spectacular in whi…
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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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Yara Shahidi is an American actress and model. She is best known for starring as Zoey Johnson on the sitcom Black-ish and its spin-off series Grown-ish. She has been in movies such as Alex Cross, Salt and has several voice acting roles (Family Guy, Trollhunters). She is also signed to Women Model Management.
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June Caprice (November 19, 1895 – November 9, 1936) was an American silent film actress. Early life and career Born Helen Elizabeth Lawson in Arlington, Massachusetts, she began her acting career in live theatre and in 1916 signed with the Fox Film Corporation. In 1916 William Fox searched to find a "second Mary Pickford." By the summer of that year he believed he had located the woman he predicted would be the best known female on the screen within six months time. She made her debut on July 9 at the Academy of Music (Manhattan) on 14th Street (Manhattan), in Caprice of the Mountains. A New York Times film critic said of her, "she is young, pretty, graceful, petite, …
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Greta Gynt (November 15, 1916 – April 2, 2000), born Margrethe Woxholt, was a Norwegian singer, dancer and actress. Biography Greta Gynt was born Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norway. As a child, she came with her parents to England and started dancing lessons at the age of 5. Eventually, they moved back to Norway. At age 12, she started out as a dancer at the Chat Noir shows in Oslo. After the Swedish film Sången till henne (1934), her mother, costume designer Kirsten Woxholt, felt her daughter would have better luck in England. She got a letter of recommendation from Fox Film and moved to the UK. She played lead roles in minor British films in the 1930s and 40s. The Ra…
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Marian Nixon (October 20, 1904 – February 13, 1983) was an American film actress. Career Born Marian Nissinen in Superior, Wisconsin, Nixon began her career as a teen working as a chorus dancer on the vaudeville circuit. She began appearing in bit part in films in 1922 and landed her first substantial role in the 1923 film Cupid's Fireman, opposite Buck Jones. The following year, she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star. Nixon continued to work steadily throughout the mid to late 1920s appearing in Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), Hands Up! (1926), and The Chinese Parrot (1927). In 1929, she made her talkie debut as the lead in Geraldine. Later that same year, Nixon appeared o…
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Meredith Monroe attending the Step Up Women's Networks' '9th Annual Inspiration Awards' held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on June 08, 2012.
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Eugenia Hirivskaya (Russian:Евгения Владимировна Хиривская, born 3 September 1981 in Moscow) is a Russian actress. She is best known for playing Kalinka is the Belgian television series Matroesjka's. Wiki | imdb
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Louise Dresser (October 5, 1878 – April 24, 1965) was an American actress. Born Louise Josephine Kerlin in Evansville, Indiana, her first film was The Glory of Clementina (1922), and her first starring role was in The City that Never Sleeps (1924). She took her professional last name as a tribute to her good friend, songwriter Paul Dresser. Dresser, the elder brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser, was a popular songwriter of the turn of the 20th century. During the first presentations of the Academy Awards in 1929 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for A Ship Comes In. She portrayed Empress Elizabeth in Paramount Pictures's The Scarlet Empress (193…
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Florence Lawrence (January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian inventor and silent film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star." When she was popular, she was known as "The Biograph Girl," "The Imp Girl," and "The Girl of a Thousand Faces." Lawrence appeared in more than 270 films for various motion picture companies. Early life Born Florence Annie Bridgwood in Hamilton, Ontario, she was the child of Charlotte A. Bridgwood, a vaudeville actress known professionally as Lotta Lawrence, who was the leading lady and director of the Lawrence Dramatic Company. Her father was George Bridgwood (born Stafforshire, England; died 1898, Hamilton, Wentwor…
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Lois Collier (born Madelyn Jones) (21 March 1919 – 27 October 1999) was an American film actress born in Salley, South Carolina. She was sometimes credited as Lois Collyer. Collier's acting career started in 1938, when she had a small but credited role in A Desperate Adventure, starring Ramon Novarro and Marian Marsh. From 1940 through 1949 her career would be active and somewhat successful, with her playing mostly heroine roles in B-movies. During that period she often starred opposite western stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, and Dennis Moore. In 1950 she starred in the sci-fi serial The Flying Disc Man From Mars. From 1950 through 1957 she starred mostly on television seri…
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Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she played the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1938) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Career Brady was born in New York City as Mary Rose Brady, and was interested at an early age in becoming an actress. Her father, William A. Brady, was an important theatrical producer, and her mother was Rose Marie Rene who died in 1896 when litt…
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Dorothy Dell (January 30, 1915 – June 8, 1934) was an American film actress. Early life and career Born Dorothy Dell Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to entertainers, she moved with the family to New Orleans, Louisiana, at age 13. She was born into a socially prominent family, and her mother was a descendant of Jefferson Davis. Initially desiring to become a singer, she was discovered by composer Wesley Lord, and soon signed a radio contract. She began entering and winning beauty pageants and at the age of 15 won the title of "Miss New Orleans" in 1930. That same year she attended the International Pageant of Pulchritude in Galveston, Texas, and won the Miss Universe t…
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Joy Esther, born June 14, 1984 in Lyon, is a French actress and singer. Her filmography: Movie - 2001 : Gamer by Patrick Levy - 2008 : Secret défense by Philippe Haïm - 2017 : Des amours, désamour by Dominic Bachy : Manon TV movie - 1997 : Mission protection rapprochée by Nicolas Ribowski : Anne Janson (créditée Joy Cavé) - 2015 : On se retrouvera by Joyce Buñuel : Alice - 2016 : J'ai épousé un meurtrier by Marc Angelo TV series - 1999 : Une femme d'honneur : Alice - 2003-2004 : Même âge, même adresse by Bruno Garcia - 2008 : Pas de secrets entre nous by Michel Hass…
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Date of Birth 5 July 1927, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA Date of Death 23 November 2005, Reno, Nevada, USA (pulmonary embolism) Birth Name Beverly Jean Saul Mini Biography This relatively obscure, sweet-faced "B" level ingénue of the post-war 40s and 50s was born Beverly Jean Saul of modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on July 5, 1927. Her mother was a secretary who secured piano and music lessons for her young daughter. Her father was employed with a typewriter company. As a teenager Beverly made her singing debut on radio. Moving to Hollywood with her mother, she was groomed by MGM at the ripe old age of 14 and made her first picture with a bit part in …
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Bianca Jasmine Lawson is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for regular roles in the television series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Goode Behavior and Pretty Little Liars. Wikipedia Born: March 20, 1979 (age 34), Los Angeles, California, United States Nationality: American Height: 5' 4" (1.62 m) Parents: Richard Lawson, Denise Gordy Siblings: Marvin Pentz Gaye
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