Actresses
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Michelle Claire Ryan (born 22 April 1984) is an English actress, best known for playing the role of Zoe Slater on the popular BBC1 Soap Opera EastEnders. She will be starring in the upcoming NBC television show Bionic Woman. Ryan was born in Enfield, Greater London. A member of a local theatre group since she was 10, she was picked for her role in EastEnders when she was 15 and first appeared on the show in September 2000; for the part, she affect an East End cockney accent, rather than speaking her usual Received Pronunciation. In 2005 she announced she was leaving EastEnders to concentrate on work in theatre and films. During summer 2005, Ryan appeared in a run of Who…
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Name: Jessica Lowndes Birthday: November 8th, 1988 (she just turned 18!) Birthplace: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Actress - filmography To Have and to Hold (2006/I) (TV) .... Lisa (SCREENCAPS NEEDED!) "Kyle XY" .... Eve (1 episode, 2006) - Memory Serves (2006) TV Episode .... Eve "Alice, I Think" .... Becky (2 episodes, 2006) - Miss Smithers (2006) TV Episode .... Becky - What Would Jesus Do? (2006) TV Episode .... Becky "Masters of Horror" .... Peggy (1 episode, 2005) - Dance of the Dead (2005) TV Episode .... Peggy Saving Milly (2005) (TV) .... Andrea Kondracke (Age 15) I saw her on MOH and thought she deserved a thread.
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Mini biography As a child, Geena dreamed of being an actress. While in high school, she felt left out and had low self esteem because, at 6 feet, she was the tallest girl in school. After high school, Geena entered New England College in New Hampshire and then transferred the next year to Boston University where she majored in drama. In 1979, she graduated and moved to New York to start her career. Her career consisted of sales clerk and waitress. She worked at Ann Taylor, where she eventually rose to Saturday window mannequin while trying to get a job with a modeling agency. Eventually signed by the Zoli Agency at the advanced age of 23, she wound up as a model in the …
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Jalapa, Veracruz 10 de march de 1980
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Early life and career Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts, then lived on New York's Upper West Side. Her father was born in Gesualdo, a village in province of Avellino (Italy). Her mother died when she was only four years old. She eventually moved to Miami, where she worked as a cocktail waitress and met New York fashion photographer Andrew Rosenthal, with whom she eventually returned to New York. [citation needed] In 1996, she was bartending at the SoHo Bar & Grill when an agent approached her about appearing in commercials. She subsequently appeared in commercials for Citibank and L'Oreal. Minor roles on shows like Strangers with Candy and a handful of films f…
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Date of birth (location) 13 October 1967 San Jose, California, USA Mini biography Kate Walsh was born in San Jose, California, on October 13, 1967. She grew up partly in San Jose and partly in Tucson, Arizona, later attending the University of Arizona, where she got involved in regional theater. She later moved to Chicago where she began working with the Piven Theatre Workshop and, later, the Chicago Shakespeare Repertory. She performed on National Public Radio in the production of the radio play "Born Guilty". Walsh later moved to New York City and joined the comedy troupe "Burn Manhattan", performing in a number of Off-Broadway plays. Her first major television …
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Bonnie Somerville (born February 24, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an actress who has had roles in a number of movies and television series, most notably NYPD Blue, Grosse Pointe, and The O.C.. Born and raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn by her mother and large Irish Catholic family. Bonnie started acting and singing at a young age, appearing in all the high school plays at Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She attended Boston College as a Musical Theater major, and left to move back home to New York to try acting professionally. At the age of 17 Bonnie had a development deal to sing her own music and sang with many bands in the New York city…
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Date of birth (location) 15 February 1983 Iowa City, Iowa, USA Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Mini biography Ashley Cafagna-Tesoro has had an acting career spanning over eleven years. She has had international modeling campaigns, several commercials and has graced the cover of many magazines. She has guest- starred on several popular television shows including; "7th Heaven", "Valley of the Dolls", "Hey Arnold", "CBS's morning news show", and as a guest host for "E! Entertainment Television". She has been a presenter at prestigious award shows including the daytime Emmy Awards, the Soap opera Digest Awards, and was awarded "Best Newcomer on a Daytime Television Show" in A…
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Rachel Elise Blanchard (born March 19, 1976 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian actress. Her career was launched with a part in a McDonald's commercial, and as an eight-year-old on the Canadian children's show The Kids of Degrassi Street. Blanchard is probably best known for playing the part of Cher Horowitz (originally portrayed by Alicia Silverstone) on the television series based on the 1995 movie Clueless. Her looks are similar to those of other blonde actresses with whom she might be confused, such as Maggie Lawson and Sara Paxton. She bears particular resemblance to Heather Graham. The brave step of performing in a British sitcom paid off in 2004, when she received c…
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Anna Kay Faris (born November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American actress, best known for her roles in the Scary Movie films as Cindy Campbell. Faris, the daughter of Jack (of Scottish/Irish descent) and Karen (of German, English and French descent), grew up in Edmonds, Washington, north of Seattle. Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young and she gave her first professional acting performance at age 9 at the Seattle Repertory Theater. After attending Edmonds Woodway High School, she studied English literature at the University of Washington and lived for a time in London. Her first significant film role was in the independent prod…
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Kimila Ann Basinger (pronounced [ˈbeɪ.sɪŋ.r̩]) (born December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. Basinger is of German, Irish, Swedish and one-eighth Cherokee descent. When Kim Basinger was 16 years old, she started her modelling career by entering and winning the Athens Junior Miss contest. She followed that up by winning the title of
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Farrah Fawcett (born Ferrah Leni Fawcett[1] on February 2, 1947) is an American actress. She became a noted pop culture figure and legendary sex symbol of the 1970s, then an iconic actress in the 1980s, changing the cultural landscape of how television actresses appeared on film Fawcett was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas to James William Fawcett and Pauline Alice Evans. She is the second of 2 daughters. Her older sister, Diane, passed away from lung cancer in 1998. As a child, Farrah, displayed a natural athletic ability which her father encouraged. She was raised Roman Catholic. She attended the University of Texas at Austin and was a member of the Delta Delta…
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Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Steven Fanning (a former baseball player who now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles) and Joy Fanning, who played tennis professionally. Her mother had wanted to name her "Hannah" and her father wanted to name her "Dakota"; she has always used Dakota among her friends and family. She has a sister, Elle, who is now also an actress. Fanning is of half German descent, and her last name is of Irish origin. She is a Baptist, having grown up in the Southern Baptist Convention. Fanning began acting at the age of five, after appearing with legendary musician Ray Charles in a television commercial for the Georgia State Lottery …
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Lake Bell Date of birth (location) 24 March 1979 New York City, New York, USA A native of New York City, Bell graduated in 2002 from London's esteemed conservatory Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, where her extensive training included dance and stage combat. Among her London theatre credits are The Seagull, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, The Children's Hour and The Pentecost. She most recently co-starred opposite in Miss Match. She also previously starred in the telefilm War Stories, and in back-to-back episodes of ER. For the big screen, Bell appears in The Hillside Strangler, which is currently making the film festival circuit. Additional feature …
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Amanda Jeannette Detmer (born September 27, 1971 in Contra Costa County, California, and raised in Chico, California to Melvin Detmer and Susan Thurmon) is an American actress who made her big screen debut playing Miss Minneapolis in the beauty pageant-set comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous. She has also made notable appearances in Saving Silverman and Big Fat Liar. She also appeared in Final Destination as Terry Chaney, the second death of the film, who got splattered by a bus. She appeared in the movie (Sands of the Saraha) within the movie, The Majestic, opposite Bruce Campbell. Though Detmer made her onscreen debut in 1995 with the television movie Stolen Innocence, she decid…
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Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld is a German model and actress. She was born on 29 December 1966 in Baden-Baden to Peter Kamp aka Peter Griffin and his wife. She visited drama schools in New York, Los Angeles and Paris befor she started her career as an actress in 1994. In the meanwhile she worked as a waitress and model to finance her studies. She had a lot of star roles and underparts in German movies and TV series and some in Hollywood B-movies. In 1998, she played together with Claudia Cardinale in "Riches, Belles et Cruelles", in 2001 with Leslie Nielsen in "A Space Travestie" and in 2003 she played the star role in "Sumuru" together with Michael Shanks in an English-South…
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Bianca Maria Kajlich (born March 26, 1977 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actress. Bianca has appeared in the films Bring It On and Halloween: Resurrection. She has also had recurring roles in the television series Boston Public, as Lisa Grier, and Dawson's Creek, as Natasha Kelly. She also played the lead female role in the former UPN television series Rock Me Baby. Bianca is currently a supporting actress in the critically acclaimed new FOX drama Vanished. On 8 September 2006, it was announced she will join the cast of CBS midseason comedy Rules Of Engagement. Trivia Her fiance is American soccer player Landon Donovan. Bianca's last name Kajlich is pronounce…
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Birth name Camara DaCosta Johnson Nickname Cammy Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Yaya DaCosta (born Camara DaCosta Johnson in 1982) is an American fashion model and actress from Harlem, New York. She was the runner-up in Cycle 3 of America's Next Top Model. Yaya and Eva Pigford are both short by most modeling standards. Yaya is 5' 8" and at the time of the Top Model competition was a 21 years old and had just graduated from Brown University. Before Top Model Johnson was educated at the Northfield Mount Hermon School and Brown University, where she majored in International Relations and African Studies. She graduated with an A.B. in May 2004. She speaks P…
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Arielle Kebbel (born February 19, 1985 in Winter Park, Florida) is an American actress. She graduated from high school in Crenshaw a year early at age 17. She drove across the country with her mother prior to begin her acting career. Her first major role was a recurring role in the 3rd-5th seasons of Gilmore Girls, playing Lindsay Lister, girlfriend and later wife and ex-wife of Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki). She also has previously guest starred on the series Grounded for Life. She played Elyse Houston in American Pie: Band Camp (2005) and in 2006 appeared in both John Tucker Must Die and the Japan-filmed horror film The Grudge 2; she has described her character in Th…
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Born August 18, 1987 (age 19) Tucson, Arizona, USA Occupation Actress Career milestones Smile (2005) Sleepover (2004) Blue Crush (2002) Mika Sue "Mika" Boorem (born August 18, 1987) is an American actress. Boorem was born in Tucson, Arizona to Benjamin and Holly Boorem. She has become known for starring in the films Smile (2005) and Sleepover (2004). She had supporting roles in the films Carolina (2003), Blue Crush (2002), Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Along Came a Spider (2001), The Patriot (2000) and Jack Frost (1998); and recurring roles on the TV series' Dawson's Creek and Touched by an Angel. She can also be seen in the Lifetime Movie drama, Augusta, Gone and is current…
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Elsa Pataky (born 18 July 1976, Madrid, Spain) is an actress. Her surname is of Hungarian origin and means "someone who lives near a creek". She is fluent in Spanish, French, English and Romanian. Pataky has appeared in over 10 Spanish films and most recently crossed over into the French market with her co-starring role in the box office hit, Iznogoud (2004). Elsa recently completed working in a supporting role in the New Line Cinema film Snakes on a Plane starring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by David Ellis. She is currently receiving rave reviews for her work in the Spanish film, Ninette, helmed by Oscar winner Jos
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Bio - find the whole one at wikipedia.org Elizabeth Taylor Birth name: Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor Date of birth: February 27, 1932 Place of birth: Hampstead, London, England Dame Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor, DBE (born February 27, 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. She was long considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and, arguably, the most beautiful actress of all time. Her trademark is her dazzling violet-blue eyes framed by a double row of eyelashes. The American Film Institute named Taylor among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 7. Early life and career She was born in Hampstead, London, the seco…
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Bio taken from wikipedia.org - I've shorten it, just go to wikipedia to find the whole one ... Ava Gardner Born: 24 December 1922 Brogden, North Carolina, USA Died: 25 January 1990 Westminster, London, England Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress. Gardner was born in the small farming community of Brogden, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children of poor tobacco farmers; her mother was a Baptist of Scots-Irish descent, while her father, Jonas Bailey Gardner, was an Irish American Catholic. In 1941, a Loews Theatres legal clerk, Barnard "Barney" Duhan, spotted Gardner's photo in the Tarr Photography Studio on 5th Avenue in New York. Th…
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