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Leboeuf was born on December 13, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, to Diane Lavallée and Marcel Leboeuf.[1] She went to École Notre Dâme de Grace for elementary and later on, she went to Villa Maria (see also: fr:Villa Maria) for high school. Laurence never graduated from Villa Maria.[citation needed] She wasn't interested in school and decided she would rather follow in her parents' footsteps and become an actor.[citation needed] She made her acting debut as Évelyne Boivin in the French Canadian television series Virginie.[citation needed] Later, she played Louise Lavigueur in the Quebec television series Les Lavigueur, la vraie histoire, and more recently as Apple in Turbo…
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Born in the UK (Sussex), in 4 March 1987, but spent part of her childhood in Dubai. She attended Windlesham School and Brighton College, and had been planning to study at Nottingham University, when she was cast in Pride and Prejudice (2005) a year before finishing her A-levels. After twice deferring university places to concentrate on her acting career, she was a student at Homerton College, Cambridge. Tamzin is most known for her role as Katherine Howard in The Tudors and for her role as Georgiana Darcy. It was announced on 20 August 2009 that Merchant would star as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice an…
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Cynthia Myers was the first Playboy Playmate born in the 1950s when she appeared in the magazine in December 1968. The pictures were shot in June 1968[1] when she was 17 years old,[2] but it was Playboy's policy by that time to wait until a Playmate turned 18 before her pictures would be published.[3] Her pictorial was titled "Wholly Toledo!" because of Myers' hometown and large breasts. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar, and quickly became a favorite of American troops in Vietnam. The centerfold appears in the 1987 film Hamburger Hill. According to Myers, she was 13 when her breasts began to develop to the size 39 DD they were when she appeared in Playboy. …
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Merry Anders (born Mary Helen Anderson; 22 May 1932) is an American supporting actress who has appeared in a number of television programs and films since the 1950s. In 1954, she succeeded Ann Todd as Stuart Erwin's daughter in the final season of his TV series, The Stu Erwin Show. From 1957-1959, Anders co-starred with Barbara Eden and Lori Nelson in How to Marry a Millionaire in a syndicated 20th Century Fox television series based on the 1953 film How to Marry a Millionaire. The three played young women living in New York City trying to land a wealthy husband. Anders left show business in 1972 to work for a division of Litton Industries, where she stayed until her ret…
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Madeline Hurlock (12 December 1899 – 4 April 1989) was a silent film actress, hailing from Federalsburg, Maryland. Hurlock appeared in many short comedies for Mack Sennett, starting in 1923, and was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1925. She was a talented comedian, also known for her incredible beauty. She appeared in over 50 short films, the first of which Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? was made in 1923, the last Pink Pajamas in 1929.She featured in one of Laurel and Hardy's earliest films, Duck Soup. Hurlock married three times: John S. McGovern, divorced 1924. Marc Connelly, married 1930, divorced 1935. Connelly won the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Green…
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Barbara Bates (August 6, 1925 – March 18, 1969) was an American actress best known for her role as Phoebe in the 1950 drama, All About Eve. Early life The eldest of three daughters, Bates was born in Denver, Colorado. While growing up in Denver, she studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contest and won, receiving two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Two days before returning to Denver, Bates met Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist, who would ultimately change the course of her life. Career In September 1944, Bates signed a contract with Universal Pictures after Cecil Coan introduced h…
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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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Ruth "Dusty" Anderson (December 17, 1918 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress and World War II pin-up girl. She began her career as a model and made her motion picture debut in a minor role as one of the cover girls in the 1944 Columbia Pictures production of Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth. Over the next three years Anderson appeared in another eight films, usually in secondary roles. During World War II she was one of a number of actresses who became a pin-up girl, appearing in the October 27, 1944 issue of the United States Military's YANK magazine. Dusty Anderson married director Jean Negulesco in 1946 and retired from acting. Four years later, her final scree…
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Griselda Siciliani is an Argentine actress. Griselda Siciliani began her career in musical comedy, and took part in the theater play "Revista Nacional". She met the actor and producer Adrian Suar, who took her to play a secretary in Sin Código, a satirical police sitcom where Suar was the main actor. Her character was named "Flor", a nerd that fell in love with her boss, who did not even notice. Griselda won the Clarin Award and Martin Fierro Award as new female artist for this role. She posed for the Argentine edition of Playboy magazine, but she was not satisfied with the production. She worked the following year in the Sos Mi Vida telenovela, and in the musical…
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Date of birth: 1982, Tokyo, Japan As a model, she based in Paris and worked all over Europe. Because of her short hight, she mainly worked for tv comercials, prints, music videos, magasines, especially for the beauty, including La Roche Posay, Wella, Goldwell, Schwarzkopf, Garnier. She has trained in ballet, jazz and tap dance. In Paris where she came to study the ballet, she was scouted by a French model agency and decided to continue her modeling career in Paris as well as in Tokyo. Immediately, her modeling career spread all over Europe, and she ended up giving up her dance. For INJU, the director Barbet Schroeder was smitten at the single sight of her audition, bu…
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Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931 in Malmo, Sweden. Growing up with seven brothers and sisters was not an adventure, but Anita's adventure began when she was elected Miss Sweden in 1950. She did not win the Miss Universe contest but she got a modeling contract in the United States. She quickly got a film contract with Howard Hughes's RKO that did not lead anywhere (but Anita herself has said that Hughes wanted to marry her). Instead, she started making movies with Universal, small roles that more often than not only required her to look beautiful. After five years in Hollywood, she found herself in Rome, where Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1…
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Lynn Bari (December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989), born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress (usually in B-movies) who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s. Career Born in Roanoke, Virginia, most of her early films, before getting supporting parts, were uncredited roles usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. Bari's rare leading roles include China Girl (1942), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), and The Spiritualist (1948). However, in the B movies she was in, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess. Some examples include the films Shock and Nocturne (both 1946).…
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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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Ginny hails from the east bay area in northern California. After graduating high school, she traveled south to San Diego where she attended San Diego State University, receiving her B.A. in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in performance. She began her professional on-screen career when she was cast in Tales of the Grudge, directed by Toby Wilkins and produced by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures. Wilkins later cast her in “Devil’s Trade”, a horror based web-series also produced by Ghost House Pictures. Ginny began her television debut when she was cast in the HBO series “Entourage”. Following that came work on ABC’s “Ugly Betty”, “Private Practice”, and most recently guest s…
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Gwili Andre (4 February 1908 – 5 February 1959) was a Danish actress who had a brief career in Hollywood films. Film career Born Gurli Andresen in Copenhagen, Denmark, Andre came to Hollywood in the early 1930s with the intention of establishing herself as a film star. She appeared in the 1932 RKO Studio films Roar of the Dragon and Secrets of the French Police and began to attract attention for her striking good looks. These films provided her with starring roles playing against such established actors as Richard Dix, ZaSu Pitts and Frank Morgan, and RKO began using her glamorous looks to promote her. A widespread publicity campaign ensured that her name and face beca…
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Rachel Joy Shenton is an English actress, screenwriter, and activist known for playing Mitzeee Minniver on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks (2010–2013), Lily Summers in ABC Family drama Switched at Birth (2014–2017). Born: December 21 '87, Caverswall, UK ''All Creatures Great And Small'' series two set, North Yorkshire, Apr 7 '21 Great show. Looking forward to new episodes.
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