Actresses
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Mary Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Elsie Charlotte (Hennessy) and John Charles Smith. She was of English and Irish descent. Pickford began in the theater at age seven. Then known as "Baby Gladys Smith", she toured with her family in a number of theater companies. In 1907, she adopted a family name Pickford and joined the David Belasco troupe, appearing in the long-running The Warrens of Virginia". She began in films in 1909 with the 'American Mutoscope & Biograph [us]', working with director D.W. Griffith. For a short time in 1911, to earn more money, she joined the IMP Film Co. under Carl Laemmle. She returned to Biograph in 19…
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Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 — June 29, 1967) was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s,[1] Mansfield, like Marilyn Monroe, was a Playboy Playmate of the Month, and appeared in the magazine several more times over the years. She won the Theatre World Award, Golden Globe and Golden Laurel. Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. Though Mansfield's career was short-lived, she had several box office successes. As the demand for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, Mansfield was relegated t…
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I know, I'm a bit nostalgic today, but I like Lupe a lot, she was so beautiful - and she was the first mexican actress in Hollywood so she should have her thread here as well Bio - taken from wikipedia.org Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944) was a Mexican actress. Vélez was born María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez in the city of San Luis Potosí. Her father refused to let her use his last name in theater, so she used her mother's maiden name. Lupe was educated at a convent school in Texas before finding work as a sales assistant. She took dancing lessons and in 1924 made her performing debut at the Teatro Principal. She moved to California that year and was fi…
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Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with William Powell resulted in fourteen films together, including several subsequent Thin Man films. Early life Loy was born Myrna Adele Williams to Adelle Mae and rancher David Franklin Williams in Radersburg, Montana, a small town near Helena.She was of Welsh and Scottish ancestry.Loy's firs…
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Keri Russell Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002. Russell has since appeared in several films, including We Were Soldiers, The Upside of Anger and Mission: Impossible III. She currently lives with her husband Craig Whiteman in London, Canada. Craig is a high profile clown at the London Circus. Early life Russell was born in Fountain Valley, California to David Russell, a Nissan Mot…
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Grace Van Patten (born November 21, 1996)[1] is an American actress. She has appeared in two films distributed by Netflix: Tramps (2016) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and in Hulu's miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) and Tell Me Lies (2022). She is the daughter of director Timothy Van Patten and niece of actors Joyce Van Patten and Dick Van Patten. https://www.instagram.com/gracevanpatten/?hl=fr
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Height: 5'8'' (173cm) Bust: 34 Waist: 24'' (61cm) Hips: 34'' (86cm) Shoes: 39 Dress: 8 Eyes: Green Hair: Brunette
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Early life and education Zegler was born on May 3, 2001,[4] in Hackensack, New Jersey, at the Hackensack University Medical Center. Her mother is Gina Zegler, and she has an older sister, Jacqueline.[5] Her mother is of Colombian descent,[6] and her father is of Polish descent.[7][8][9] Zegler was raised in Clifton, New Jersey, where she attended St. Philip the Apostle Preparatory School. She then attended the Catholic all-girls college-preparatory Immaculate Conception High School, where she starred in the school's musicals all four years: as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2016), Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2017),[10] Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (2018), and P…
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Lili Pauline Reinhart (born September 13, 1996) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Betty Cooper on The CW television series Riverdale. Reinhart was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She grew up acting in community theater since the age of 12. Reinhart guest starred on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and starred in the films The Good Neighbor, Miss Stevens, Forever's End, Gibsonburg, The Kings of Summer, Not Waving But Drowning, and Lilith. On February 9, 2016, Reinhart was cast as Betty Cooper, "sweet, studious, eager-to-please and wholesome with a huge crush on her longtime best friend, Archie" in The CW's teen drama series …
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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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Sarah Margaret Qualley ... noticed her at Chanel's Pre-Fall 2012 ... Stats: Height: 5'9.5 Bust: 32.5'' Waist: 23.5 '' Hips: 33'' Hair: Brown Eyes: Green source: imgmodels & stylesavvy@tfs EDIT: Thanks to subway123@tfs for finding out the name
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<span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>Anne Hathaway</span> Date of birth (location) 12 November 1982 Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Sophie Bathsheba Thatcher (born October 18, 2000)[1] is an American actress. She is best known for starring as young Natalie Scatorccio in Showtime's psychological drama series Yellowjackets (2021–present) and for her appearance as Drash in The Book of Boba Fett (2022). In 2018, she made her big screen debut in the American science fiction film Prospect, and later starred in The Boogeyman (2023).[2] Thatcher's work on stage includes productions of Oliver!, Seussical, The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Secret Garden.[3] https://www.instagram.com/soapy.t/?hl=fr
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Eva Longoria Date of birth (location) 15 March 1975 Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Notable TV Guest Appearances 1. "Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show" playing "Herself" 23 November 2004 2. "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" playing "Herself" 5 November 2004 3. "Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The" playing "Herself" 4 November 2004 4. "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" playing "Herself" 28 October 2004 5. "Oprah Winfrey Show, The" playing "Herself" 15 October 2004 6. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" playing "Herself" 6 October 2004 7. "Beverly Hills, 90210" playing "Flight Attendant #3" in episode: "I Will Be Your Father Figure" (episode # 10.19) 8 March 2000 …
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Profile: Monica Bellucci Birth Date: September 30, 1964 Birth Place: Citta di Castello, Perugia, Italy Occupation: Actress/Model Height: 5' 9
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I can't believe a thread has never been done here on Terry Farrell, best known as Jadzia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also played Reggie on the TV sitcom Becker, with Ted Danson, and was Keith Gordon's love interest in 1986's Back to School, with Rodney Dangerfield.
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Julianne Hough From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julianne Marie Hough Born: July 31, 1988 Occupation: Professional Dancer/Singer Julianne Marie Hough (born July 31, 1988) is an American professional ballroom dancer, and television celebrity. Dance Biography Julianne moved to London, England at the age of ten during her parents divorce where she trained with dance coaches and studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts. She became the youngest and only American to gain the titles of Junior Blackpool World Latin Champion and International Youth Champion. Hough was also trained in singing. When she was 15 years old, Julianne returned to her hometown…
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Birth Name: Izabella Dorota Scorupco Birth Date: June 4, 1970 Birth Place: Bialystok, Poland Nationality: Polish Height: 5' 6'' Profession: Actress/Model Claim to fame: as Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova in Goldeneye (1995) Bio: Scorupco was born on June 4, 1970, in Bialystock, an industrial town in northeast Poland, to Madgelena and Lech Scorupco. Her mother, a doctor, and her father, a jazz musician, divorced when she was one (her father died 18 years later). In 1978, Scorupco and her mother relocated to a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. There, Scorupco took various singing and acting courses and began composing her own plays, which she would bully her clas…
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Dever was born in Phoenix, Arizona.[1] At the age of five, she began her interest in the performing arts with her parents sending her to an acting school. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet and skating, until she focused on acting. Her family then moved to Dallas, Texas, where she enrolled at the Dallas Young Actors Studio in a month-long acting program. Honing her acting skills at the studio, she booked a number of commercials, before moving to Los Angeles. Dever's first notable acting role was in the American Girl film An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009) as Gwen Thompson, a bullied homeless girl. In 2011, she was cast in a recurring role as Loretta M…
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Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949). Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a…
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Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Jesi, Province of Ancona) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Jesi, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi. Early career Virna Lisi began her film career in her teens. She was discovered by two Neapolitan producers (Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce) in Paris. Her debut was in La corda d'acciaio (The line of steel, 1953). Initially, she did musical films, like in E Napoli canta (Napoli sings, 1953) and the successful Questa è la vita (1954, with the popular Totò). Nonetheless, soon Virna Lisi became a figure whose beauty was more valued than her talent, like in Le diciottenni and Lo scapolo films of 195…
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Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (French pronunciation: [lɛzli kaʁɔ̃]) (born 1 July 1931) is a French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood musical stars in the 1950s. Caron is best known for the musical films Gigi, Lili, An American in Paris, and Daddy Long Legs, and for the non-musical films The L-Shaped Room, Father Goose, and Fanny. She received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She speaks French and English. Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine), France, to Claude Caron, a French chemist, and Margaret Petit, an American dancer.[1] Caron was prepared for a performing career from ch…
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Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American film actress. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to.... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Early lifeLamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Carmen Louise (née LaPorte) and John Watson Slaton, both of whom were waiters.[1] Lamour had French Louisianan, Spanish and Irish descent.[2] Her parents' marriage lasted only a few years, with her mother re-marrying to Clarence Lambour, and Dorothy took his last name. The marriage also ended in divorce when Dorothy was a teenager. The family finances wer…
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