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Carol Smillie Date of Birth 23 December 1961, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Birth Name Carol Patricia Smillie Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Spouse Alex Knight (1991 - present) 3 children Trivia She has three children with her husband Alex - a son, Robbie, and two daughters, Christie and Jodi. Won "Rear of the Year" in 1998. Was one of several celebrity members shown on MENSA's website. She was kicked out when she revealed a friend helped her with the high IQ club's entrance exam. She was a guest call taker for the phone lines of the donations to The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live. She is a former pupil of the independent Hutchesons' Grammar School. Daughter of George Smillie, an …
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Born in Manhattan and raised in Los Angeles, Stephanie grew up swimming, riding, playing tennis, dancing, diving, clowning around, doing chores, and living the normal life of a tomboy in the great expanse of the San Fernando Valley. As a very young amateur theatrical entrepreneur, she produced, wrote, and directed pieces in her little bedroom hallway, in the stable, and on neighbors' fireplace hearths, earning her the title, "the boss." But Stephanie's abiding love of theater was kindled at Brown Ledge Camp in Mallett's Bay, Vermont, where she acted, sang, and was nurtured in theater craft for six summers. Friends she made there count among her friends today. Eager to get…
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Veronica Carlson (born 18 September 1944 in Yorkshire, England) is an English model and actress, famous for her roles in Hammer horror films. Born as Veronica Mary Glazer, Veronica Carlson spent most of her childhood in Germany where her father was stationed. She attended the Thetford Girls' School and later, High Wycombe College of Technology and Design, where she studied art and participated in college amateur productions. In her mid-twenties, Veronica played a few minor parts in movies and television programmes. James Carreras, the boss of Hammer Films, saw one of her photographs in a newspaper and offered her a role opposite Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from…
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(Jeannine Paulette Verret / Françoise Choureau) 12 November 1933 is born in Paris, France 1958 begins an affair with Prince Moulay Hassan, who is heir to the Moroccan throne and four years her senior, and retires from the screen 3 March 1961 her relationship with Hassan ends when he is proclaimed King of Morocco following the death of His Majesty Mohammed V 1962 returns to the movies after a four-year absence untitled.bmp untitled.bmp
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(Margaret Dolores Katherine Casey) 9 February 1913 is born in Brooklyn, New York, of Irish descent, to Mr. and Mrs. Casey, nee Daly enrolls at Columbia University for a course in journalism is stricken with tuberculosis and is forced to retire from her classes starts as a commercial model in New York is screen-tested and put under a one-year-contract by United Artists November 1934 is put under contract by Paramount becomes a Goldwyn Girl 19 April 1936 is admitted to a Monrovia, California, sanitarium for a long fight against tuberculosis of the throat. The press tells that her friends - director Ray McCarey and actor William Frawley amongst - collected money…
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Profile * Name: 한가인 / Han Ga In (Han Ka In) * Real name: 김현주 / Kim Hyun Joo (Gim Hyeon Ju) * Profession: Actress and model * Birthdate: 1982-Feb-02 * Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea * Height: 169cm * Weight: 46kg * Star sign: Aquarius * Blood type: AB * Family: Husband/actor Yun Jung Hoon and sister
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Kseniya Rappoport is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg's Academy of Theatrical Arts. Immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre. She played Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull, Elena in Uncle Vania, and Sofia in A Play Without a Title. She has appeared in such films as Streets of Broken Lamps, Baron, Anna Karenina, Nicholas II (Germany), The Russian Bride, National Security Agent, Empire Under Fire, Calendula Flowers, Prokofiev (Germany), Get Thee From Me, Criminal Petersburg, Homicide, and I Pay Up Front. She starred in the Italian film La sconosciuta (2006) and in the Golden Lion nominated movie La doppia ora (2009), for which she won Be…
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Joanna Kara Cameron, sometimes listed as JoAnna Cameron, (born September 20, 1951) is an American actress who played the title role in the children's television program The Secrets of Isis. Early life Joanna Cameron was born in Aspen, Colorado, and was raised in rural northern Colorado. She attended the University of California, Riverside where she earned a degree in Marketing. Career While at college Cameron became friends with Linda Hope, the daughter of Bob Hope. When she was introduced to the famous comedian, he cast her in the film How to Commit Marriage in 1969. This led to a series of film and television roles throughout the 1970s. Cameron was reportedly consi…
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Linda Christian (born November 13, 1923) is a Mexican movie actress, who filmed films in Mexican cinema and in Hollywood, her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film Tarzan and The Mermaids (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 TV adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. In 1963 she starred in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "An Out for Oscar". Early life Christian was born as Blanca Rosa Welter in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, the daughter of Dutch engineer and Royal Dutch Shell executive, Gerardus Jacob Welter, and his Mexican-born wife of Spanish…
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Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role in both the stage and screen versions of Six Degrees of Separation. Early life Channing was born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in New York City, the daughter of Mary Alice, who came from a large Brooklyn-based Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard, who was in the shipping business and died in 1960. She grew up on the Upper East Side. She is an alumna of The Madeira School, a Virginia boarding school for…
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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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Peggie Castle (December 22, 1927 – August 11, 1973) was an American actress who specialized in playing the "other woman" in B-movies. She was also billed under the names Peggy Castle and Peggie Call. Career Born Peggy Blair in Appalachia, Virginia, Castle was discovered by a talent scout while eating in a restaurant in Beverly Hills. She appeared in such films as Payment on Demand, 99 River Street, I, the Jury, Invasion U.S.A., and Arrivederci Roma. Castle then moved to television, where she played the major character Lily Merrill in the television western series Lawman from 1959 to 1962. Personal life and death Castle retired from acting after she married director Wi…
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(Catherine Walker) 31 July 1933 is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Irish-Hungarian descent makes her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company in a production of Aida at age 11 travels as a solo dancer with the San Carlo Opera Company and the Ballet Theatre signs a contract with Columbia but is released to star in a German ballet film that is never made February 1958 in spite what she says, she and Elvis Presley have seen each other. In fact, according to Elvis, she is the only girl he has dated since his arrival in Hollywood to do King Creole. Late May 1959 signs to play the female lead in Rock ‘n‘ Roll Killer, which will be produced by Sammy Davis, Jr’s., com…
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Lilyan Chauvin (August 6, 1925 – June 26, 2008), born Lilyan Zemoz, was a French-American actress, television host, director, writer, former Vice President of Women in Film, author, teacher and private coach. Her motion picture credits included Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) and Catch Me If You Can (2002). In the 1990s and 2000s, she guest-starred in show such as The X-Files, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Friends, Alias, Malcolm in the Middle and Ugly Betty. Early life Chauvin began her career working in broadcasting in France. Her mother was French and her father was Italian. While under contract to a French radio station she had her heart set on becoming a lawyer; …
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Elsa Cárdenas (born 3 August 1935) is a Mexican actress. She has appeared in over 100 films and television shows since 1954. She starred in the film Happiness, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography Happiness (1956) Giant (1956) The Brave One (1956) Fun in Acapulco (1963) untitled.bmp untitled.bmp
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Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927) is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the film Superman and the Mole Men and during the first season of the Adventures of Superman television series. Early life and career After graduating from high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, Coates went to Los Angeles, intending to study at UCLA. However, a chance meeting with entertainer Ken Murray resulted in her working in his vaudeville show as a chorus girl. She later performed as one of Earl Carroll's showgirls at his Earl Carroll Theatre. She signed a movie contract with Warner Broth…
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6 July 1926 is born in Providence, Kentucky February 1946 signs with RKO and models her summer bathing suit for the first pin-up pose of her motion picture career leaves Hollywood and marries Fred L. Levy, young dynamic head of Blum’s Candy Company, the ex of dancer Renee De Marco 1952 her son, Freddie, is born 1953 returns to Hollywood and becomes involved with television March 1954 her marriage to Levy is over. Levy will die at age 53 in 1966 in San Francisco.
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Susan Cabot (July 9, 1927 – December 10, 1986) was an American actress. Early life Born Harriet Shapiro to a Russian Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot's early life was one of turmoil, and she was raised in eight different foster homes. She completed her education in New York, New York, and found employment as an illustrator. She supplemented her income by working as a singer, and also worked in theater. Career She made her film debut in 1947, by chance when Kiss of Death was filmed in New York, and she played a bit part. She expanded her acting work into television and was seen by a Hollywood talent scout who took her to Hollywood to work for Columbia Pic…
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Marguerite Chapman (March 9, 1918 - August 31, 1999) was an American actress. Born in Chatham, New York, she was working as a telephone switchboard operator in White Plains, New York when her good looks brought about the opportunity to pursue a career in modeling. Signed by the prestigious John Robert Powers Agency in New York City, the publicity she earned modeling brought an offer from 20th Century Fox film studios in Hollywood. She made her film debut in 1940, working for the next two years in small roles. In 1942, her big break came with Republic Pictures when she was cast in the leading female role in the twelve-part adventure film serial Spy Smasher, a production …
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Janis Carter (October 10, 1913 — July 30, 1994) was a film and television actress working in the 1940s and 1950s. After attending Mather College in Cleveland, Ohio, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although unsuccessful in opera, she was working on Broadway where she was spotted on stage by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a movie deal. Carter, after moving to Hollywood, appeared in over 30 films beginning in 1941 for 20th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, and RKO. She appeared in the films Night Editor (1946) and Framed (1947) with Glenn Ford and the Flying Leathernecks (1951) with John Wayne. After leaving Los Angeles, Carter returned to …
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Name: 森泉 (もり いずみ Name (romaji): Mori Izumi Nickname: Izumi-chan (泉ちゃん) Profession: Actress, model, and tarento Birthdate: 1982-Oct-18 Birthplace: Minato, Tokyo, Japan Height: 174cm Measurement: B: 80.0 W: 60.0 H: 88.0 Zodiac sign: Libra Blood type: A Family: Grandmother/fashion designer Mori Hanae, father/businessman Mori Akira, mother/former model Pamela Ann Harris and brother/t-shirt designer Mori Tsutomu Talent agency: Oscar Promotion Education: Keio Gijuku Yochisha Primary School, Putney School (Vermnont, United States), Clark Memorial International School (Shenzhen, Hokkaido) Hobbies: Talking to animals and equestrian Specialty: Design Languages: Japan…
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Date of birth: 02.10.1985 Age: 21 Sign: Libra Filmography: Alma Pirata - 2006, Argentina
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Mary Ann Castle (January 22, 1931 – April 29, 1998) was an American actress of early film and television whose personal problems destroyed her once burgeoning career. Her best known role was as female detective Frankie Adams in the syndicated western series, Stories of the Century, which aired from 1954 to 1955. Early years Castle was born as Mary Ann Noblett to Erby G. Noblett, Sr. and Myrtle A. Noblett in Pampa. Her mother was one-sixteenth Quapaw Indian. The Nobletts moved to Fort Worth, Texas, then Phillips, subsequently a ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas, prior to relocating to Long Beach, California. At the age of nine, Castle contracted pneumonia. Her bro…
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Corinne Calvet (April 30, 1925 – June 23, 2001) was a French actress who appeared mostly in American films. Born Corinne Dibos in Paris, Calvet studied criminal law at the Sorbonne and made her debut in French radio, stage plays and cinema in the 1940s before being brought to Hollywood in the 1940s by producer Hal Wallis. He cast her in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and Paul Henreid. In the 1950s, Calvet appeared in a string of films, usually playing French characters, opposite such leading men as Danny Kaye (On the Riviera), Joseph Cotten (Peking Express), James Cagney (What Price Glory?), James Stewart (The Far Country), Alan Ladd (Thunder in the East), …
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