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Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio. Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became a fashion icon, and by 1924 had achieved international sta…
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Alice White (August 24, 1904, Paterson, New Jersey – February 19, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American film actress. Early life and career She was born Alva White of French and Italian parents. Her mother, a former chorus girl died when Alice was only three years old. She attended Roanoke College in Virginia and then took a secretarial course at Hollywood High School also attended by future actors Joel McCrea and Mary Brian. After leaving school she became a secretary and "script girl" for director Josef Von Sternberg. After clashing with Von Sternberg, White left his employment to work for Charlie Chaplin, who decided before long to place her in front of the …
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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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Alice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 – June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress. Film star Born Alice Beatrice Calhoun in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in a role not credited in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films between then and 1929. As a star with Vitagraph in New York City, she moved with the company when it relocated to Hollywood. In the comedy, The Man Next Door (1923), Calhoun plays Bonnie Bell. A critic complimented her on being pretty and playing her role successfully.The Man From Brodney's (1923) is a movie which displays the fencing talent of actor J. Warren Kerrigan. Directed by David Smith for Vitagraph, the film is bas…
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Asta Nielsen (11 September 1881 - 24 May 1972), was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta (The Asta). Noted for her large dark eyes, mask-like face and boyish figure, Nielsen most often portrayed strong-willed passionate women trapped by tragic consequences. Due to the erotic nature of her performances, Nielsen's films were heavily censored in the United States and her work remained relatively obscure to American audiences. She is credited with transforming movie acting from overt theat…
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Anita Stewart (February 7, 1895 – May 4, 1961) was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era. Early life and career Born in Brooklyn, New York as Anna May Stewart, she began her acting career in 1911 while still attending Erasmus High School in extra and bit parts for the Vitagraph film studios at their New York City location. Stewart was one of the earliest film actresses to achieve public recognition in the nascent medium of motion pictures and achieved a great deal of acclaim early in her acting career. Among her earlier popular roles were 1911's enormous box office hit adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, directed by William J.Humphrey, and …
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Alice Joyce (born October 1, 1890 – October 9, 1955) was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess. Personal life Alice Joyce was born in Kansas City, Missouri to John Edward and Vallie Olive McIntyre Joyce (1873-1938). She had a brother, Francis "Frank" Joyce (1893-1935), who was 2 years younger who later became an entertainment manager. By 1900, her parent's marriage fell apart, and her father, John, took custody of little Alice and Frank and moved to Falls Church, Virginia, where Joyce spent most of her childhood. According t…
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Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria. Biography Early life Valli was born in Pola, Istria, Italy (today Pula, Croatia), to parents who both had mixed ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was the Baron Luigi Altenburger (also: Altempurger), an Austrian-Italian from Trento, a descendant of the Counts d'Arco; her paternal grandmother was Elisa Tomasi f…
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Hey Lisa! Bettie has a thread in the models section
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Marjorie Main (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Early life and career Born Mary Tomlinson in Boggstown, Indiana, Main attended Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, and adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, Samuel J. Tomlinson (married to Jennie L. McGaughey), who was a minister. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. Main began playing upper class dowagers, but was ultimately typecast in abrasive, domineering,…
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Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892 – February 23, 1930) was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors. Onscreen she co-starred in commercially successful films with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin. At the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Normand had her own movie studio and production company. Throughout the 1920s her name was linked with widely publicized scandals including the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor and the 1924 sh…
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Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968) was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish. Early life The Gish sisters' mother, Mary Robinson McConnell "Gish", supported the family after her husband, James Leigh Gish, abandoned the family. When they were old enough, Dorothy and Lillian were brought into their mother's act, and they also modeled. In 1912, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced them to director D.W. Griffith, and the sisters began acting at the Biograph Studios. Dorothy and Lillian Gish both debuted in Griffith's An Unseen Enemy. Dorothy would go on to star in over 100 short films and features, many …
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Amy Ciupak Lalonde (born July 26, 1976[citation needed]) is a Canadian-born television personality from Pelham, Ontario. She holds a degree in drama and history from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Lalonde appears on the television channel SCREAM. She has made guest appearances in Mutant X, Queer as Folk, Kevin Hill, Beautiful People, Battlestar Galactica, Jeff Ltd. and Love Bites. Lalonde has appeared in numerous commercials including Molson's "It Starts Here" ad campaign as Allison the cowgirl on the airplane. She has been seen in commercials for Kit Kat (playing a snobby socialite daughter) as well as in a commercial for Special K cereal (as a devastated gi…
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Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress. After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued successfully through the 1950s …
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Billur Kalkavan (born November 1962) was a Turkish theater actress. Kadıköy Anatolian High School, College and studied at the Ministry of Education has completed. In the first role in cinema, the 1969 "separate world called" films, Erol Stone's portrayal of a child kidnapped for ransom by the bad guy is played. Starting from 1980 gave weight to the theater.
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Vera starred in her own film she produced "BloodRayne A Fan Film" in which she played Rayne. She's known for her work in cosplay. The Way (2010/II) .... Lap Dance Girl Ballistica (2010) .... CIA Agent Fear the Forest (2009) .... The Goth Girl Consuming Darkness (2008) (V) .... Dead Business Woman Beverly Hills Massacre (2008) (V) .... Sally BloodRayne: A Fan Film (2008) .... BloodRayne Rolling (2007) .... Dancer Doomed (2007) (V) .... Contestant/Zombies Dorm of the Dead (2006) (V) (uncredited) .... Uber Zombie "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" .... Fetish Catalog Model (1 episode, 2005) ... aka "Law & Order: CI" - USA (promotional abbreviation) …
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Jacinda Barrett (born 2 August 1972) is an Australian American model turned actress. She first became known to audiences as a cast member on The Real World: London before appearing in films such as Ladder 49, The Namesake, The Human Stain, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Barrett was previously engaged to American actor Chris Hardwick, host of MTV's Singled Out. On 29 December 2004, she married American actor Gabriel Macht. The couple had their first child, a girl named Satine Anais Geraldine Macht, on 20 August 2007 in Los Angeles. Barrett enjoys skydiving, explaining 'it gets scarier the more you do it. After a while you realize you're flinging yourself out of…
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colombian actress heres who website: diananeira.net and some of her gallery diananeira
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Natasha Elizabeth Dupeyrón Estrada June 3, 1991 (1991-06-03) (age 18) Mexico City, Mexico Occupation Actress Telenovelas Verano de Amor Juro que te amo Lola...Érase una vez Peregrina Contra Viento y Marea De Pocas Pulgas La Otra Carita de Angel Amigas y Rivales Siempre te amaré Ángela Gotita de Amor María la del Barrio
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Edith González (born Edith González Fuentes) on December 10, 1966 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México is a Mexican actress, dancer and model. Edith was born and raised in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México; she was born into a middle-class family. From an early age Edith showed a passion for acting. During a visit to Siempre en Domingo, Edith was chosen among the audience to interpret a role with actor Rafael Baledón. Having almost no experience or coaching as an actress, Edith received her first role in 1976 at the age of ten in the movie El rey de los gorilas. After only two movies to her acting resume, she was offered the role of the quintessential spoiled daughter in the te…
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Popular Telugu actress Genelia D'Souza got her first break in the movie 'Boys' directed by Shankar. The film was a box-office hit and soon Genelia started getting more roles. Genelia has so far acted in over a dozen Telugu, Tamil and Hindi movies. Genelia's success rate in Tollywood has been pretty good. Her movies Satyam, Masti, Samba, Sye and Happy have all fared pretty well at the box office. Despite getting good roles and her movies doing average business commercially, Genelia was still waiting for that one big hit that could change her career. The wait was not long as her most recent movie 'Bommarillu' has had a huge positive impact on Genelia�s career. Bommarillu, …
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Natalia Mart�ƒnez Streignard (born 9 September 1970) is a famous Venezuelan actress who is working in telenovelas and soap operas. Biography Streignard was born in Madrid, Spain. Her mother was Argentine, and her father was German. When she was 3, the whole family emigrated to Venezuela. Before becoming an actress, Streignard was a contestant in the Miss Venezuela pageant, where she was a finalist. Her acting career started shortly after (in 1992), with starring and supporting roles in several Venezuelan telenovelas. Some of her most memorable productions have been Pedacito de cielo (Marte TV, 1993), Sol de tentaci�ƒ³n (Venevisi�ƒ³n, 1996), Mi destino eres t�ƒº (Te…
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