Actresses
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Jane Krakowski (born October 11, 1968) is a American actress and singer. She is best known for her performance as Elaine Vassal on Ally McBeal, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and for her current role as Jenna Maroney on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, for which she has received three Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also regularly performs on the stage and won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway revival of Nine and an Olivier Award for her role as Miss Adelaide in the West End revival of Guys and Dolls.
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jane Leeves is a British actress, born 18 April 1961 in Redbridge. She started a career as model but became famous as actress, best known a Daphne Moon in Frasier. She won several awards for her part in this very successful sitcom. Before Frasier, she started with appearances and smaller roles in movie and tv. First was being a topless angel in Monty Python’ s The Meaning of Life. later she had a few roles in the Benny Hill shows. her rise to stardom began with TV shows Throb! And in Murphy Brown. 1993 was the year she started in Frasier as the live-in caretaker for the father of Frasier Crane. Daphne Moon is characterized by her charmin…
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Jane Colburn Levy (born December 29, 1989) is an American actress. She is best known for her current role as Tessa Altman on the ABC comedy series Suburgatory. She made her TV debut on Showtime's Shameless, and is to appeared in two movies in 2012, Fun Size and Nobody Walks. She has been named by critics as one of the breakout stars of 2011, and Forbes named her on their list of 30 under 30 who are "reinventing the world" (a list of the brightest stars of the future).
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She was born in San Antonio, Texas, and received a full scholarship to Juilliard, which she turned down to spend years studying at the Pasadena Playhouse. From there, she got her start on Lux Radio Theatre and then with the Harry Conover Modeling Agency, where she was given her nickname "Poni". (This was supposedly due to her love of horses, but in reality it was to provide her with a more memorable stage name.) She returned to using her real name in 1945. She is best known for her role as Nina in 1945's House of Dracula, but she also has the distinction of acting in early adaptations of both major DC Comics franchises: Batman, where she played Vicki Vale in the second B…
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From AllMovie: Biography by All Movie Guide Voluptuous sex symbol and star of Hollywood films, TV, and nightclubs, Jane Russell was the daughter of an actress. She worked as a receptionist and model, and studied theater at Max Reinhardt's Theatrical Workshop and with Maria Ouspenskaya. Endowed with a large bust, she won the lead role in Howard Hughes' The Outlaw (1941) after Hughes conducted a nationwide search for a curvaceous actress, eventually finding her working in his dentist's office. The film caused a storm of controversy due primarily to the amount of cleavage shown by Russell onscreen, and, after brief releases in 1941 and 1943, it was not officially released…
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Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was a United States Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe. Once Mr. Russell was mustered out of the service, the family took up residence in Canada, but moved to California when he found employment there. The family was well-to-do and although Jane was the only girl among four brothers, her mother saw to it that she took piano lessons. In addition to music, Jane was interested in drama much as her mother had been and participated in high school stage productions. Upon graduation, Jane took a job as a receptionist for a do…
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Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg on February 15, 1951) is an English-born American actress probably best known today as the star of the TV series and movie Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Born in Hayes, Hillingdon, England to John Frankenberg, a British Jewish obstetrician of Polish and German origin and his Dutch wife Mieke van Trigt, she took the stage name of Jane Seymour at the age of 17. more info @ Wikipedia
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Janel Meilani Parrish (born October 30, 1988) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for playing Jade in the 2007 film Bratz: The Movie and her role as Mona Vanderwall on the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars. Source : Wikipedia 2012 Teen Choice Awards in Universal City (July 22, 2012)
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Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter. One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937). She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely inju…
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Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 …quot; October 3, 2004) was an American actress. Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s. She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). From the end of the 1950s, she played more dramatic roles in such films as Touch of Evil (1958) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962), but she achieved her most lasting recognition for her performance as the doomed Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). For this role she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Acad…
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Janet Montgomery Janet Ruth Montgomery (born 29 October 1985) is an English film and TV actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Ames in the second season of Fox's Human Target[1], and also for her appearances in The Hills Run Red and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, as well as her role as Eric Murphy's assistant Jennie in HBO's Entourage. Montgomery began her acting career at the age of 12, when she appeared on the British children show Short Change with her brother Jason. In 2008, she was cast as the love interest of Nicholas Hoult in an episode of the teen drama Skins. Montgomery appeared in both the critically acclaimed Dis/Connect and the short fi…
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Janet Varney is an American actress and comedian who's known for voiced Korra in the animated series "The Legend of Korra", her roles as Evie Barret in Stan Against Evil and as Becca Barbara in "You're the Worst". Her filmography: Movies 2003 Stuck Jane 2004 Catwoman Party Girl 2007 Humble Pie Joleen 2007 Dante's Inferno Cleopatra / Var…
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Janina Gavankar - Logo's 'NewNowNext Awards' 2012 at Avalon, April 5
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Janina Uhse (born 2 October 1989 in Husum, West Germany) is a German Actress.
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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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January Jones January Jones (born January 5, 1978 in Brookings, South Dakota, USA) is an actress. She is best known for her role as "Cadence Flaherty" in the 2003 movie American Wedding (also known as American Pie: The Wedding, especially outside the USA), the third movie in the American Pie comedy film series. She has also had supporting roles in Anger Management (2003) and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (also known as Dirty Dancing 2). She had a small role in Love Actually as Jeannie "the American Angel." In 2005, she appeared in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. Prior to her acting career, Jones …
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https://www.instagram.com/jarahartt/ Clarissa Sofía
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Born: April 21 1999 Known for A Sister's Nightmare (2013), A Mother's Nightmare (2012) and Kiss at Pine Lake (2012). ''Perfect High'' premiere and Periscope Party, Los Angeles, Jun 27 '15
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Jasmyn is an English actress best known from the soap opera "EastEnders" Filmography : Sadie J (TV series) Samantha – Blackmailamundo (2012) … Samantha 2011 Life of Riley (TV series) Lauren – Absent Friends (2011) … Lauren 2011 Doctors (TV series) Belinda Stuart – Confessions (2011) … Belinda Stuart 2010 Little Crackers (TV series) Susan – Jo Brand's Little Cracker: Goodbye Fluff (2010) … Susan
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Jayma Mays Jayma Suzette Mays (born July 16, 1979) is an American television and film actress. Mays was born in Grundy, Virginia. After graduating from Grundy Senior High School, she attended Radford University where she graduated with a degree in Performing Arts. In 2004, she made her first television appearance on Joey. The following year, she made her feature film debut with a supporting role in Red Eye. Mays' other credits include Six Feet Under, The Comeback, Entourage, Stacked, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, Ghost Whisperer and Ugly Betty. Jayma was in other movies, such as: Bar Starz, Flags of Our Fathers and Blind Guy Driving. She also starred in the spoof fil…
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One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Vera J. and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney in Phillipburg, New Jersey, where Jayne began her girlhood. Her parents were both born with the same surname, and her ancestry was seven eighths British Isles (English and Cornish) and one eighth German. Jayne was a talented pianist and violin player as a child. Tragedy struck when Jayne was three, when her father suddenly died of a heart attack. Three years later, her mother remarried and the family moved south to …
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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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Jayne Wisener (born 19 May 1987) is a Northern Irish actress and singer. She plays Johanna in the film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Wisener was born and grew up in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, where she attended the Coleraine High School for girls. After graduating from this fine establishment, she went on to train at the Royal Scottish College of Music and Drama. In 2005, she represented Antrim in the highly acclaimed Rose of Tralee competition.[1] Wisener also was part of Musical Theatre 4 Youth, and appeared in a workshop production of Falling. [2] In earlier days of her youth, Jayne worked in a local Pizzeria called Pizza Pomadoro's, where lads wo…
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Jasmine Sinclair is an American film and television actress. She is known for playing Angela in Paper Towns, Anna in When the Bough Breaks and Rosalind "Roz" Walker in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She will star as Red River Supe Marie Moreau in the Amazon Prime Video series Gen V, set for a 2023 release. https://www.instagram.com/jaz_sinclair/?hl=fr
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