Actresses

Jennette McCurdy - 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles - September 10, 2011

Kay Ann Lenz (born March 4, 1953) is an American actress. A former child performer, Lenz has worked primarily in television and has won two Emmy Awards. Born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a producer/commentator father and a model/radio engineer mother, Lenz began working as a child actress, appearing in such television shows as The Andy Griffith Show(under the stage name Kay Ann Kemper) "Opie's Group" 1967) as well as in stage productions. She made a brief appearance in the film American Graffiti (1973) as one of the girls at the dance. She achieved recognition for her title-role performance as the free spirit who captivates William Holden in Breezy, directe…

Clare Grant Clare Grant (born August 23, 1979) is an American actress. Early life Grant was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She was involved in theater as a young child throughout her schooling years, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater Performance from the University of Memphis. Career While at the University of Memphis she met director Craig Brewer who cast her in two indie films in Memphis before casting her in the film Black Snake Moan and later as the lead in his MTV series $5 Cover. Grant modeled for Elite Model Management in Miami, Florida and subsequently modeled in Europe. After she worked on several independent films in Memphis, she was cas…

Jessy Schram Jessica "Jessy" Schram (born January 15, 1986) is an American actress who starred in several TV series including Veronica Mars, Life and Falling Skies. Life and career Born in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, she quickly developed a passion for acting. At the age of 10, she signed with a talent agency in Chicago for both acting and modeling. By age 14, she competed in various song competitions through the Chicago area. She graduated from Buffalo Grove High School with the class of 2004. Over the years, she has secured a number of acting roles, while continuing to model and pursue a music career. Her music is considered to be a cross between pop and …

Alexandra Breckenridge Alexandra "Alex" Breckenridge (born May 15, 1982) is an American film and television actress, photographer and voice artist. Noted for her role as Willa McPherson on the television series Dirt, she also had a supporting role on the short lived series The Ex List. She also is the voice of various characters on the animated television series Family Guy. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Breckenridge started her interest acting and creating while living in Mill Valley, California at the age of eleven. She and her mother moved to Los Angeles when Breckenridge was fifteen years old to pursue her career. Early life Breckenridge was born in Bridgeport, Conn…

Romane Bohringer - Kasia Wandycz Photoshoot 2006 / French Actress

Erica Cerra - Regard Magazine - Issue #9 2011

Liane Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel ("Sweet Viennese Girl") and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s. Her first motion picture was a propaganda film made during the First World War, Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland (1916). She worked for UFA and, as a trained singer, easily made the transition to the sound era, appearing in comedy films alongside German stars such as Willi Forst, Bruno Kastner, Georg Alexander, Theo Lingen, and Heinz Rühmann. Having refused seve…

Phyllis Haver (January 6, 1899 – November 19, 1960) was an American actress of the silent film era. Early life She was born Phyllis Haver in Douglass, Kansas. When she was young, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, then a city of less than half a million people. Haver attended Los Angeles Polytechnic High. After graduating, she played piano to accompany the new silent films in local theaters. Career Haver auditioned for comedy producer Mack Sennett on a whim. Sennett hired her as one of his original Bathing Beauties Within a few years, she appeared as a leading lady in two-reelers for Sennett Studios. At the Sennett Studios, Haver played the part of Roxie Ha…

NAME: Azita Ghanizada BIRTHDATE: November 17, 1979 ETHNICITY: Afghan OCCCUPATION: Actress EDUCATION: Has degrees in English and Communications. *She is currently a primary cast member of the American Syfy Channel series Alphas where she plays Rachel Pirzad, a woman with enhanced sensory abilities. FILMOGRAPHY 2004 - A Kiss on the Nose 2005 - The Closer 2006 - Numb3rs, Prita 2007 - Bones, The Wedding Bells, Veronica Mars, X's & O's 2008 - General Hospital: Night Shift 2009 - How I Met Your Mother, Entourage, Psych, Ghost Whisperer 2010 - You, Only Better, Tough Trade, Castle, NCIS: Los Angeles 2011 - Friends with Benefits, Alphas

Lilian Harvey (19 January 1906 – 27 July 1968) was a British-born actress and singer, long-based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film Der Kongress tanzt. Life Helene Lilian Muriel Pape was born in 1906 in Hornsey, North London. Her mother, Ethel Marion Laughton, was English and her father, Walter Bruno Pape, was a German businessman. At the beginning of World War I the family found itself in Magdeburg, and as they were unwilling and unable to return to England, Harvey was sent to live with an aunt at Solothurn in Switzerland. After the war, the Papes lived in Berlin, where Lilian took her high-school diploma…

Evelyn Holt (1908 - 2001) was a highly popular German film actress in the late silent and the early sound era. The rise of the Nazis finished her blossoming film career. The actress Evelyn Holt was born as Evelyn Sklarz. In the last years of the silent movie era she came in contact with the film and acted in well-known productions like "Die Waise von Lowood" (26), "Liebelei" (27) and "Ehe in Not" (29). The transition to the sound film didn't give her problems because she was an educated soubrette. She played succesfully in "Das Wolga-Mädchen" (30), "Das Ekel" (31) and "Fortschritt" (33). With the assumption of power of the Nazis became her professional field of activ…

Mekenna Melvin Mekenna Melvin is an American actress known for playing the role of Alex McHugh in Chuck, Angela in Three Rivers, and Stefanie Fife in Lie to Me. She also co-created and will be starring as Amber Hannold in Amber Lake, an independent film due for release in 2010. Date of Birth 23 January 1985, Saratoga, California, USA Mini Biography Born and raised in Saratoga, CA, Mekenna Melvin spent most of her childhood in her mother's drama classes and rehearsals. Thus, Mekenna gives her mom, a drama teacher and director, credit for igniting Mekenna's interest in acting. After high school, Mekenna moved to New York City and studied at the American Academy of Dram…

Sandra Echeverria - Open (Mexico) April 2011

Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (born December 11, 1944) is an American film and television actress. Early life Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1944. Her father, Eddie Garr (born Edward L. Gonnoud), was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road. Her mother, Phyllis Lind (née Emma Schmotzer), was a dancer, a Rockette, wardrobe mistress, and model. Education Garr graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1962. She briefly attended California State University, Northridge, then known as "San Fernando Valley State College". Career Early in her career, she was credited, variously,…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Milicevic Ivana Miličević (born April 26, 1974 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is an American actress.

Lola Glaudini (born November 24, 1971, New York City, New York) is an American actress. She attended Bard College. She was a regular on the CBS series Criminal Minds as Elle Greenaway, but left the show early in the second season because she reportedly became unhappy living in Los Angeles and wanted to return to the East Coast. She had a recurring role on the HBO series The Sopranos as Federal Agent Deborah Ciccerone-Waldrup. Before those roles she appeared on NYPD Blue as Dolores Mayo, a heroin-addicted office assistant. She has guest starred in The Good Guys, The King of Queens, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Boomtown, Special Unit 2, Law and Order: Criminal Inte…

Gail Grainger is a British actress best remembered for her role as Miss Moira Plunkett, a travel courier in the 1972 comedy film Carry On Abroad. Background Gail Grainger took up dancing at the age of six and studied at a theatrical school. She had television roles in her teens in the BBC’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe and in ATV’s daily serial Crossroads. Carry on Abroad In Carry on Abroad (1972), Grainger's Miss Plunkett was assistant to Stuart Farquhar, a courier played by Kenneth Williams, who led a party that included Sidney James, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, June Whitfield, Sally Geeson and Carol Hawkins on a wee…

Odalys García (born October 23, 1975) is a Cuban actress, model, singer and show host. García, born in Havana, Cuba, started by participating in dance demonstrations by the age of eight. At nine, she was admitted to the Alicia Alonso School of Ballet. When Odalys was 13, she arrived in Miami, where she began a career in modeling. In 1991, she was cast to host Noche de Gigantes (Night of the Giants) by Univision, alongside Don Francisco. Garcia and Don Francisco became friends during the two years she was in the show, and she started to become famous to Hispanic audiences. Soon, she was chosen to host De Pelicula, a Saturday afternoon movies show. But her biggest break …

Mary Frances Gifford (December 7, 1920 – January 22, 1994) was an American actress who played leads and supporting roles in many 1930s and 1940s movies. Career Gifford was born and raised in Long Beach, California and at the age of 16 had applied to UCLA School of Law with no intention of pursuing an acting career. With a friend, she visited the studios of Samuel Goldwyn to watch a film being made and while there was spotted by a talent scout who brought her to the attention of Goldwyn, who signed her for an acting contract. After only receiving minor roles, she moved to RKO where she was cast in several uncredited supporting roles in films of the late 1930s, including …

Renee Godfrey (born Renee Vera Haal, September 1, 1919 - May 24, 1964) was an American stage and motion picture actress and singer. Biography Born September 1, 1919 in New York, Renee Haal was a singer and competed as Miss New York State in the 1937 Miss America pageant. In 1938, she went to London for a singing engagement and met the actor/director/screenwriter Peter Godfrey, whom she married two years later, he was almost 20 years her senior. She initially entered films at RKO, working as Renee Haal, and made her debut in Sam Wood's Kitty Foyle (1940), the film that garnered Ginger Rogers her Oscar. Her next movie, Unexpected Uncle, was directed by Peter Godfrey, who …

Mitzi Gaynor (born September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer and dancer. Life and career Gaynor was born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago, Illinois to Pauline Fisher, a dancer, and Henry von Gerber, a violinist, cellist, and music director. The family first moved to Detroit and when she was eleven to Hollywood, California. She trained as a ballerina as a child and began her career as a chorus dancer. At 13 she was singing and dancing with the Los Angeles civic light opera company. She lied about her address so she could go to Hollywood High School, and signed a seven year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox at age 17. She sang, acted and dan…

Megan Gallagher (born February 6, 1960) is an American actress. Gallagher was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and grew up in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Aileen Gallagher, was a model. Gallagher has largely worked in television and theatre. Her best-known roles are probably as Garry Shandling's wife on the HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show, and as Catherine Black, wife of Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) on the TV series Millennium. She had been a regular on Hill Street Blues, The Slap Maxwell Story, China Beach, and Nowhere Man. Other credits include L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and American Dreams. She also had a brief appearance d…

Greta Gynt (November 15, 1916 – April 2, 2000), born Margrethe Woxholt, was a Norwegian singer, dancer and actress. Biography Greta Gynt was born Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norway. As a child, she came with her parents to England and started dancing lessons at the age of 5. Eventually, they moved back to Norway. At age 12, she started out as a dancer at the Chat Noir shows in Oslo. After the Swedish film Sången till henne (1934), her mother, costume designer Kirsten Woxholt, felt her daughter would have better luck in England. She got a letter of recommendation from Fox Film and moved to the UK. She played lead roles in minor British films in the 1930s and 40s. The Ra…

Joyce Giraud (born Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica; April 4, 1975) is a Puerto Rican actress and model. She is a two time Miss Puerto Rico and the second runner up in the 1998 Miss Universe pageant. She had previously represented Puerto Rico at Miss World 1994. Giraud was featured in episodes of Baywatch, and on the film Dude, Where's My Car?. More recently, she has starred in TV shows like House of Payne and Joey. Filmography House of Payne (2008) Slayer (2006) Heist (2006) Joey (2005) The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2006) Latin Dragon (2004) Miss Cast Away (2004) Diva Detectives (2003) The Bold and the Beautiful (2001) Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) Baywatch (20…