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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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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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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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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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Ana Obregón (born March 18, 1955 in Madrid, Spain as Ana Victoria García Obregón) is a Spanish actress, celebrity and socialite.
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Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter. One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937). She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely inju…
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Jodie Auckland Whittaker is an English actress. She came to prominence in her 2006 feature film debut Venus, for which she received British Independent Film Award and Satellite Award nominations. Born: June 17, 1982, Skelmanthorpe, UK ''Doctor Who'' BBC America Official Panel, 2018 New York Comic Con, Oct 7 '18
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Shannon Kenny, born may 26, 1971, is an Australian actress who retreaded from acting years ago to be a full time mother. She wrote a book about her decision to quit acting and how she has felt insecure about it, “ All Is Not Lost”. she is married to actor Nestor Carbonell. Kenny had succes as an actress and is known for roles in Max Steel, Batman Beyond, Sons and Daughters, The Invisible Man, Seinfeld, 7th Heaven and much more.
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Judith Barrett (February 2, 1909 – March 10, 2000), also known as Nancy Dover, was an American film actress of the late 1920s and through the 1930s, up until 1940. Born Lucille Kelley and raised in Arlington, Texas,one of three children and the daughter of a cattle rancher-whom she later claimed as being a "dirt" farmer who died of a broken heart. From these humble beginings she knew, even from a young age the "she" was different from those around her. She loved to laugh, to entertain the adults by singing,dancing and playing "drum" on a turned over metal wash tub. Barrett made several appearances at The Palace Theatre, Dallas while still at school. She did modeling at a…
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Chili Bouchier (September 12, 1909 – September 9, 1999) later known as Dorothy Bouchier was a British film actress who achieved success during the silent film era, and who made occasional film appearances with the advent of sound films, before progressing to theatre. She made her first appearance as a child dancer at a charity performance. She became a typist on leaving school and later a mannequin. Her first appearance was as a bathing belle in Shooting Stars. Bouchier won a contest run by the Daily Mail in 1927 to become a film star. She combined her film career with a great deal of stage work in the U.K. From 1950 onwards most of her appearances were on stage in drama…
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Rebecca Budig Born: 26 June 1973 Nationality: American Origin: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Occupation: Actress & Television Presenter
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Laura Ilene Benanti (born July 15, 1979) is an American actress and a singer. She played Louise in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, winning the Tony Award, and appeared in the stage musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in 2010, winning the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She played Baroness Elsa Schräder in the 2013 NBC television production of The Sound of Music Live! and in 2015 began playing twin sisters Alura and Astra in the TV series Supergirl. AOL Build Speaker Series, NYC, Jun 3 '16
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Alexandra Sorina (* 17th September 1899 in Baranovichi, A native Alexandra Zwikewitsch, † 31st May 1973 in San Rafael, California, USA) was a Russian Actress. Life The native Belarusian Zwikewitsch Alexandra , the eldest of four siblings , wanted to actually become a concert pianist and studied the midst of World War I on the mother's request in St. Petersburg Dentistry. In 1917 the family fled the turmoil of revolution by PolandWhere the young dentist opened a practice . In Warsaw Antin was the attractive exile approached by a movie studio and asked if they would not like to work as a film actress. Subsequently, the UFA attention to the young artist and brought immedi…
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Virginia Field (November 4, 1917 – January 2, 1992) was a British-born film actress. Born Margaret Cynthia Field in London, her father was the judge of England's Leicester County Court Circuit. Her mother was a cousin of Robert E. Lee. She appeared in over 40 films including Ladies in Love (1936), Waterloo Bridge (1940), Repeat Performance (1947), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) and Dial 1119 (1950). She started her film career in England then was brought to the U.S. to appear in David O. Selznick's Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). In the late 1930s she appeared in various parts in 20th Century Fox's Mr. Moto movie series. Fields married three times, …
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Ashley Newbrough (born October 13, 1987) in Newport Rhode Island, is an American film and television actress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Newbrough Early life and background Ashley Newbrough began her career at the age of ten, appearing in a number of commercials worldwide. She landed her first starring role on the Fox Family Channel’s series The Zack Files, playing Alice alongside Robert Clark, Jeff Clarke, Michael Seater and Jake Epstein. She then landed roles in television movies, including a minor one in family film Get a Clue starring Lindsay Lohan and Brenda Song. Newbrough was then given her first lead role in the 2004 drama The Coven. Her next role was …
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Marguerite Clark (February 22, 1883 – September 25, 1940) was an American stage and silent film actress. Early life and theater Born to a farming family in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, Clark was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cincinnati. She finished school at age sixteen and having decided to pursue a career in the theatre she quickly showed herself to be a gifted actress. After performing for only a short time, she made her Broadway debut in 1900. The seventeen-year-old went on to star at various venues. In 1903 she was seen on Broadway opposite that hulking comedian DeWolf Hopper in Mr. Pickwick. The 6'6" Hopper dwarfed the nearly five foot tall Cla…
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Jennifer "Jenni" Farley, (born February 27, 1986), also known as JWoww, is an American television personality. She first came to prominence as one of the eight main cast members in the MTV reality series Jersey Shore. She has also made several appearances on other shows, such as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Disaster Date.
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Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 - August 12, 1990) was a British-born American actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s. Born in Hull, England, Dorothy Mackaill lived with her father after her parents separated when she was eleven. As a teenager, Mackaill ran away to London to pursue a stage career as an actress. After temporarily relocating to Paris, France she met a Broadway stage choreographer who persuaded her to move to New York City where she became involved in the Ziegfeld Follies and befriended future motion picture actresses Marion Davies and Nita Naldi. By 1920, Mackaill had begun making the transition from "Follies girl" to motion…
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Xenia Desni (b. 19 January 1894, Kiev - d. 1954, France) was a Ukrainian actress of the silent screen era. Career Desni began her successful career at the beginning of the 1920s with the movie Sappho, followed by a number of successful productions such as Der Sprung ins Leben, Die Prinzessin Suwarin, Wilhelm Tell, Die Andere, Ein Walzertraum, Familie Schimek, and Madame wagt einen Seitensprung. Unfortunately, her acting career was ended after the film, Kriminalkommissar Eyck. Shortly before filming began on this movie, Desni was abducted by aliens. During the time spent with her extra-terrestrial abductees, Desni was made subject to numerous tests ultimately resulting i…
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Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was best known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, and as a voice actor in three Walt Disney Pictures animated feature films. Gabor had success as an actress in film, Broadway and television. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa Gabor and the late Magda Gabor, were also actresses and socialites. Marriages Like her sisters, Eva Gabor was known for her string of marriages; she had five: 1.1939–1942: Eric Drimmer, a Swedish physician 2.27 September 1943–1950: Charles Isaacs 3.8 April 1956–1957: John Williams, an Ameri…
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