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    Greta Nissen (30 January 1906 – 15 May 1988) was a Norwegian-born American film and stage actress. Stage and Screen Actress Born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen in Oslo, Norway, Nissen was originally a dancer. She debuted as a solo ballerina on the National Theatre in 1922. She toured in Norway and participated in several Danish films. Nissen made her Broadway debut as a ballerina in 1924. She had studied ballet with Mikhail Fokine. In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback. Greta was discovered by film producer Jesse L. Lasky of Paramount …

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    Nell Shipman (October 25, 1892 – January 23, 1970) was a Canadian actress, author and screenwriter, producer, director, and animal trainer. She was a Canadian pioneer in early Hollywood. She is best known for her work in James Oliver Curwood stories and for portraying strong, adventurous women. In 1919, she and her producer husband, Ernest Shipman, made the most successful silent film in Canadian history, Back to God's Country. She was one of the first women to do a nude scene on screen when she did so in that movie. Life and career Shipman was born Helen Foster-Barham in Victoria, British Columbia. Her family moved to Seattle, Washington when Nell was 13 years old. Aro…

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    Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901[1] – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress born in Joplin, Missouri. She made her acting debut appearing as a dance extra in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance (1916). She continued to play bit parts until director Frank Borzage started casting her in leading roles, beginning in 1917. Selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922, Starke starred in a number of films from 1916 to 1935. She had been introduced into the film industry by a friend following the completion of her education. She scored several lead roles in films, establishing her as a prominent silent-film actress during the 1920s. She married twice in her l…

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    Ruth Roland (August 26, 1892 - September 22, 1937) was an American stage and film actress and film producer. Early life and career Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville. She was hired by director Sidney Olcott who had seen her on stage in New York City, she appeared in her first film for Kalem Studios in 1909 and along with Gene Gauntier was soon billed as a "Kalem Girl." Roland was eventually sent to Kalem's West Coast studio where she was the lead actress and overseer of "Kalem House" where all the actors lived. At 12 years old, Roland was the youngest student at Hollywood High …

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    Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies. Career Born Irene Luther in Buffalo, New York, Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921) and The Ropin' Fool (1921). She often portrayed society women, such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon (1940). In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother. She was the mother of Gail Russell's character 'Penelope Worth', in John Wayne's Angel and the Badman as well as…

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    Abby Elliott - Maxim January 2012 Photoshoot http://www.filesonic.com/file/4148867754/A...anuary.2012.mp4 File Size: 58 MB Resolution: 1920x1080 Duration: 2min 6sec Format: MP4

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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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    Kristen Hager (born January 2, 1984) is a Canadian film and television actress. Biography Hager was born in Red Lake, Ontario, and made her first television appearance in the mini-series Beach Girls in 2005. A year later, she appeared in the TV series Runaway, which starred Donnie Wahlberg and child actress Niamh Wilson. She also made an appearance in the Golden Globe Award-winning film I'm Not There. Her most known appearance was in the movie Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, the sequel to Alien vs. Predator. Hager played Cathy in the 2008 film Wanted. During that year, she also appeared in Murder on Her Mind as Aimee Linden and You Might as Well Live as Cookie. She starre…

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    Margarita Levieva - Wearing Booty Shorts on Set of Revenge - December 6

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    ALICE PARKINSON Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts, Alice Parkinson has worked steadily in Australian film, television and theater. Her feature film credits include the forthcoming Bait 3D and The Cup, and she was seen in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, Mao's Last Dancer, directed by Bruce Beresford, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Parkinson's television credits include Rescue, The Jesters, Dance Academy, All Saints, :30 Seconds, Blue Water High and The Strip. She was also featured in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's award-winning The Pacific. Her theater credits include the Sydney Theatre Company's The Taming of the Shrew; The Peach Season, fo…

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    Jennifer "Jenni" Farley, (born February 27, 1986), also known as JWoww, is an American television personality. She first came to prominence as one of the eight main cast members in the MTV reality series Jersey Shore. She has also made several appearances on other shows, such as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Disaster Date.

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    Katie Lynn Leclerc (born November 6, 1986) is an American actress. She has appeared on several television series, including Veronica Mars and Fashion House. In 2011, she received a lead role on the show Switched at Birth, starring as Daphne Vasquez. Personal life Katie Leclerc was born in San Antonio, Texas and grew up in Lakewood, Colorado. She is the youngest of three siblings in a close-knit family. She is hard-of-hearing and at age 20 was diagnosed as having Ménière's disease, a degenerative inner ear disorder whose symptoms include fluctuating hearing loss and vertigo; both her father and older sister have Ménière's disease as well. Although she is hard of hearing,…

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    Alice Evans - BAFTA Los Angeles 2011 Britannia Awards in LA 30-11-2011 - 11x

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    Margot Robbie (born 2 July 1990) is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Donna Freedman on the soap opera Neighbours, which earned her two Logie Award nominations. In 2011, Robbie began appearing as Laura Cameron in the ABC drama series Pan Am. Early life Robbie was born on 2 July 1990 and grew up on the Gold Coast in Australia. Robbie split her time between the beach and her grandparents' farm, before moving to Melbourne when she was seventeen to begin acting professionally. She graduated from Somerset College on the Gold Coast in 2007. Career Robbie has been acting professionally since 2007, when she starred in two feature films, I.C.U. and Vigilant…

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    Ellie Kemper (Borh:Elizabeth Claire Kemper) Date of Birth:May 2,1980 Place of Birth:Kansas City,Missouri,USA Height:1.65 cm Occupatioh:Actress,comedian Years active:2003-present All Movie:17 Elizabeth Claire ''Ellie'' Kemper is an American actress,comedian and writer best known for her role as Erin Hannon in NBC's ''The Office''. http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Kemper

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    Birth Name: Holly Elissa Dignard Date Of Birth: October 01, 1979 (Age 32) Country Of Birth: Canada Birth Place: Moncton, New Brunswick Height: 5' 6" (1.67 m) Filmography: Kill Switc Supernatural

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    Kaitlin Doubleday Jan Kaitlin Len Doubleday (born July 19, 1984) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Waiting..., Catch Me If You Can and Accepted. Her younger sister is the actress Portia Doubleday; their father, Frank, is also an actor. TV appearances Hung (TV series) as Logan Lewis (2011) Bones as Karin Lin (2009) CSI: Miami as Amanda Brighton (2008) Cold Case as Holly Richardson (2004) Without a Trace as Eve Cleary/Becky Radowski (2002) Filmography Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia (2008) Cavemen (2007) Accepted (2006) The TV Set (2006) Waiting... (2005) Home Of Phobia (2004) aka Freshma…

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    Addison Timlin (born Addison Jayne Timlin - June 29, 1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. She appeared as Sasha Bingham in season four of Californication. Career Timlin debuted on the big screen as Amy, 14-year-old girl with diabetes, in the 2005 film Derailed alongside co-stars Melissa George and Clive Owen playing her parents. Addison played Maddy in a short film called The Isabel Fish directed by Lara Zizic for the Columbia Film Festival. She was also cast in the short lived CBS television drama 3 lbs as Charlotte Hanson, the daughter of main character played by Stanley Tucci, in three of the eight episodes that were filmed. She can also be s…

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    Arlette Marchal (29 January 1902 – 11 February 1984) was a French film actress. She appeared in 41 films between 1922 and 1951. She was born and died in Paris. Selected filmography Die Sklavenkönigin (1924) Madame Sans-Gene (1925) Born to the West (1926) The Cat's Pajamas (1926) Diplomacy (1926) Forlorn River (1926) Blonde or Brunette (1927) Le manoir de la peur (1927) Wings (1927) Hula (1927) A Gentleman of Paris (1927) The Spotlight (1927) Die Frau von gestern und morgen (1928) An Ideal Woman (1928) The Lady with the Mask (1928) The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) ...Sans laisser d'adresse (1951)

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    Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932) is an American actress of stage and screen known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the films The Hustler, Carrie, and Children of a Lesser God, all of which brought her Academy Award nominations. In 1991, she won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Catherine Martell in Twin Peaks. Early life Laurie was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Charlotte Sadie and Alfred Jacobs, a furniture dealer. Her grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Poland on her father's side and Russia on her mother's. Her father moved the family to Los Angeles, California in 1938. The young Rosetta was red-haire…

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    Adriana Torrebejano - 'Historias de un Karaoke' premiere at Bellas Artes Theatre in Madrid November 10, 2011 - x2 HQ

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    Elena Furiase - 'Cinco Metros Cuadrados' premiere in Madrid November 10, 2011 - x3 HQ

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    Juana Acosta - 'Cinco Metros Cuadrados' premiere in Madrid November 10, 2011 - x2 HQ

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    Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-born film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed seven others, mostly in the United States. She appeared in serial television programmes 58 times and directed 50 other episodes. Additionally, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes. Acting career Lupino was born in 1918 into an English family of performers. Her father, Stanley Lupino, was a music-hall comedian, and her mother, Connie Emerald (1892–1959), was an actress. As a girl, Ida Lupino was encouraged to enter show business by both her parents and her u…

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    Florence Lawrence (January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian inventor and silent film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star." When she was popular, she was known as "The Biograph Girl," "The Imp Girl," and "The Girl of a Thousand Faces." Lawrence appeared in more than 270 films for various motion picture companies. Early life Born Florence Annie Bridgwood in Hamilton, Ontario, she was the child of Charlotte A. Bridgwood, a vaudeville actress known professionally as Lotta Lawrence, who was the leading lady and director of the Lawrence Dramatic Company. Her father was George Bridgwood (born Stafforshire, England; died 1898, Hamilton, Wentwor…

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