Actresses

(Margaret Mary Diggins) 12 October 1921 is born in New York City to Paul Farrell Diggins, a prominent Westchester County lawyer, and his wife, the former Ella M. Connors lives with her parents and her older brother, Paul F., in Mount Vernon, New York Late '30s attends convent school until age 16. She is much too imaginative, so the Diggins conclude their only daughter should go to city high school. She is always the tallest in her class. She graduates from Mount Vernon High School in New York, where she took every available course in public speaking. Her father decided she would follow his footsteps as a trial lawyer. Evenings when her lessons were done, she and her fa…

Jill Dorothy Ireland (April 24, 1936 – May 18, 1990) was an English actress, best known for her many films with her second husband, Charles Bronson. Life and career Born in London, England, Ireland was the daughter of a wine importer. She began acting in the mid-1950s with bit parts in films including Simon and Laura (1955) and Three Men in a Boat (1956). In 1957, Ireland married actor David McCallum. The couple starred opposite each other in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Quadripartite Affair" (season 1, episode 3 - 1964) and again four weeks later in episode 7, "The Giuoco Piano Affair". She came back a third time in "The Tigers Are Coming Affair" (episode 37 i…

Lauren Felice Collins (born August 29, 1986) is a Canadian actress, best known for playing Paige Michalchuk on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Early life and career Collins was born in Thornhill, Ontario, the daughter of Sari and Stan Collins. Her father was born in London, England. Collins was raised Jewish. She has one brother, a copy editor, and her cousin is Spencer Rice, one of the stars of Kenny vs Spenny. She is a graduate of Thornlea Secondary School. Collins first began acting in 1998, with roles in various television series including Once a Thief, Noddy, and I Was a Sixth Grade Alien. From 2000 to 2001, she had a recurring role on In a Heartbeat before landing…

Name: 賈靜雯 (贾静雯) / Chia Ching Wen (Jia Jing Wen) English name: Alyssa Chia Also known as: 妞紐 / Niu Niu Profession: Actress, model and singer Birthdate: 1974-Oct-07 Birthplace: Taipei, Taiwan Height: 160cm Weight: 46kg Star sign: Libra Chinese zodiac: Tiger Blood type: A Family: Daughter Talent agency: Ye He Xing Guang TV Series Entangling Love in Shanghai (侬本多情) (2010) Infernal Lover as Yuan Shi Kai's daughter (SETV, 2010, guest) Bei Shang Shi Chang Shou Ge as Guan Liang Pei (2007) The 100th Bride as Yi Fan (2005) Turn Left, Turn Right / A Chance of Sunshine (向左走，向右走) (2004) Qin Wang Li Shi Min as Yan Zhi (2004) Miracle Healer as Ti Ying (2004) You Jia…

Charlene Choi (born 22 November 1982) is a Hong Kong based actress and singer. She is a member of Cantopop group Twins, along with Gillian Chung. Biography Choi was born in Vancouver, Canada. She moved with her family to Hong Kong a few years later. She is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. Choi was educated at a number of institutions. After graduating from Rosaryhill School, where many other pop stars had attended, she started working full-time as a model in Hong Kong. She was scouted by Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG), and was then linked with Gillian Chung to form the Cantopop group Twins. Solo acting career Early years Aside from her musical career, Choi has be…

Name: 舒畅 / Shu Chang Profession: Actress Birthdate: 1987-Dec-01 Birthplace: Baishan, Jilin, China Height: 163cm Weight: 42kg Star sign: Sagittarius Chinese zodiac: Rabbit Blood type: AB Family: Younger half brother TV Series Chun Qiu Yan Cheng as Luo Fu (2009) Royal Tramp as Princess Jian Ning (2008) Magic Mobile Phone as Sha Niu (CCTV, 2008) Cuo Ai Tian Shi as Zhou Jing Yi / Su Ya (2007) Lotus Lantern as Xiao Yu (CCTV, 2005) Shao Nian Da Qin Chai 少年大钦差 as Xu Lian (2004) Li Wei Dang Guan 2 as Shi Liu (2004) Huang Tai Zi Mi Shi as Princess Yun (CTV, 2004) Xiao Zhuang Mi Shi as Dong E Fei (CTV, 2003) Secret of the Linked Cities as Shui Sheng (2003) Tian…

Tina Caspary (born December 28, 1970) is an American actress, dancer and choreographer. She gained moderate attention in the late 1980s with Can't Buy Me Love. Early life Caspary grew in Southern California and has worked in every facet of the entertainment industry. She developed a vivid interest in dancing at a very young age, influenced by her mother, Brenda. She is the older sister of choreographer/dancer Dee Caspary and is now married to Ryan Cyphert. Career In the mid to late 1980s she had many minor roles in teen movies. Her first role was as a dancer in the 1982 movie Annie. In Combat Academy (also known as Combat High), Caspary starred alongside George Cloone…

Lydia Cornell (born July 23, 1962) is an American actress, writer, novelist, comedienne, blogger, and talk-radio host. Early life and acting career Born in El Paso, Texas, Cornell began acting in the early 1980s. Her first role was as Ted Knight's daughter Sara on the ABC television situation comedy Too Close for Comfort from 1980 to 1985. She has also appeared on numerous television programs over the years, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Drew Carey Show, Quantum Leap, Full House, Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, T. J. Hooker, Simon & Simon, Hunter, Hardball, Black Scorpion, Love Boat (5 episodes), Hotel (2 episodes), Fantasy Island, Charlies Ang…

Jill Curzon is a British actress most famous for her film and television appearances during the 1960s. Her television appearances include The Champions (1969), Adam Adamant Lives! (1967), The Saint (1965), Hugh and I and Disneyland (1963). Curzon's film roles include Louise, the niece of Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) in the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., and an appearance in Smokescreen (1964). More recently she was interviewed about her role as Louise in Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. in the 1995 Dalekmania documentary.

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Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over. Personal life Clayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of Julia Louise , a theatrical production secretary for producer David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive. Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh. Clayburgh's father's family was Jewish and wealthy. She was raised in a "fashionable" neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the prestigious Brearley School. She then attended Sarah Lawrence Col…

Leonora Corbett (1908–1960) was a British film actress. On leaving school she studied art but later decided that she would prefer the stage. She made her debut at Cambridge and later appeared on the London stage before appearing on the screen, with Love on Wheels her film debut. Selected filmography Love on Wheels (1932) The Constant Nymph (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Lady in Danger (1935) Royal Cavalcade (1935) The Price of Folly (1937) I, Claudius (1937) Farewell Again (1938) Anything to Declare? (1938)

Date of Birth 18 July 1920, Los Angeles County, California, USA Date of Death 31 August 1995, Paradise, Butte County, California, USA Birth Name Mildred Blanche Coles Mini Biography Mildred Coles was a former beauty queen and a Western character actress. Her favorite film was - Oklahoma Badlands (1948) which starred Alan "Rocky" Lane. An RKO starlet of the early 1940s, Mildred Coles ran the gamut from playing such "fallen" girls as the title role in Play Girl (1940) and a dysfunctional wife in the exploitation classic Bob and Sally (1948), to appearing as Allan "Rocky" Lane's leading lady in three Republic Westerns (1948). A typical road-show spectacular in whi…

Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Early life Carroll was born at 32 Herbert Street (now number 44) in West Bromwich, England. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, England with a B.A. degree. She once taught in a girl's public school. Acting career Carroll made her stage debut with a touring company in The Lash. Widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women in films (she won a film beauty competition to start herself off in the business), Carroll's aristocratic blonde allure and sophisticated style were first glimpsed by British movie audiences in The Guns of Loos in 1…

Mary Frances Crosby (born September 14, 1959) is an American actress. She is most often credited as simply Mary Crosby for her performances. Early life She was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of the singer and actor Bing Crosby, from his second marriage to the actress Kathryn Grant. She graduated from high school at 15. She then entered the University of Texas at Austin where she became a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, but dropped out of the University before graduating. She is fluent in Spanish. Family life Aunt of Denise Crosby (although Denise is 2 years her senior) L. Chip Crosby Jr, and Gregory Crosby Cousin of Cathy Crosby and Chris …

Marguerite Churchill (December 25, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American movie actress with a film career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She was daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York at the Professional Children's School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats. Career She played leading lady to John Wayne in The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic …

Joan Chong Chen (Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 陈冲; traditional Chinese: 陳冲; pinyin: Chén Chōng; born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks, Red Rose White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl. Biography Early life and career Chen Chong was born in Shanghai, China to a family of pharmacologists. (Her grandpar…

Joan Caulfield (June 1, 1922 - June 18, 1991) was an American actress and former fashion model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she began a stage career in 1943 that eventually led to signing as an actress with Paramount Pictures. Life and career Born while her family resided in East Orange, New Jersey, she moved to West Orange during childhood but continued attending Miss Beard's School in Orange, New Jersey. During her teenage years, the family moved to New York City where Joan eventually attended Columbia University. One of her most memorable roles was when she was lent out to Warner Bros. to appear in The Unsuspected (1947) alongside Claude Rains and…

Adrienne Corri (born 13 November 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage. She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965). She appeared in many horror and suspense films in the 1950s until the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Study in Terror and Vampire Circus. She also appeared as Therese Duval in Revenge of the Pink Panther. She also was in the 1969 science fiction movie Moon Zero Two and in the 1969 Twelfth Night, di…

Alicia Coppola (born April 12, 1968) is an American television actress. Career Coppola started her TV career as a hostess on the MTV game show Remote Control. In 1991, she was hired to play vixen Lorna Devon on the soap opera Another World; she played the role until 1994. Her better-known TV jobs include a recurring role on Trinity (1998–1999), a starring role on the American remake of the British comedy Cold Feet (1999), and top billing on the TNT drama Bull (2000). She appeared briefly as Lt. Stadi in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager, played a murderer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and a widow who marries her late husband's killer on Law & Order: Crimin…

American actress born in Richmond, Virginia Filmography Vengeance (1918) [Actress .... Hindu Wife] Stolen Hours (1918) [Actress .... Lady Hermione] A Self-Made Widow (1917) [Actress .... Della] The Page Mystery (1917) [Actress .... Kathleen Lorraine] Miss Petticoats (1916) [Actress .... Mrs. Worth Courtleigh] The Unpardonable Sin (1916/I) [Actress .... Mae Forsythe] (as Lila Hayward Chester) The Sins of Society (1915) [Actress .... Madame D'Orville] (as Lila Hayward Chester) The Little Mademoiselle (1915) [Actress .... Gabrielle D'Ornay] A Plugged Nickel (1915) [Actress .... Lila Christopher - Wife] (as Lila Hayward Chester) The Bridal Bouquet (1915) [Actress] …

Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935, in New York, New York) is an American actress and singer. Having appeared in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts such as Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, she starred in 1968's Julia, one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role. Later she created the role of Dominique Deveraux on the popular prime time soap opera, Dynasty. She is the recipient of numerous stage and screen awards and nominations. Carroll has been married four times and became the mother of a daughter in 1960. She is a breast cancer survivor and activist. Early years Carroll was born Carol…

Pamela Curran ia a character actress who appeared in several films and television shows from the late 1950s to the 1970s. Her film credits included the film classic, The Blob, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Girl Happy and The Loved One. As a guest star, she appeared on such television shows as Surfside 6, Perry Mason, My Favorite Martian, Branded, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Garrison's Gorillas, Adam-12 and Love, American Style. She also appeared in one episode of the 1960s sitcom, Hogan's Heroes. Filmography The Chase (1966) The Loved One (1965) Girl Happy (1965) Mutiny in Outer Space (1965) Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) (uncredited) The Thrill of It All (1963) The Blob (…

Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley (born December 26, 1931) is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year (she came in sixth). After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies. Most well known for playing a variety of sirens in TV's Maverick (1957) opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, she appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies, in "The Jeweled Gun," "Maverick Springs," "The Misfortune Teller," "A Bullet for the Teacher," "Kiz," "Dade City Dodge," "The Troubled Heir," and "One of Our Trains Is Missing." Crowley made 81 …

Barbara Steele (born December 29, 1937, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England) is an English film actress. She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), now hailed as a classic. Steele starred in a string of horror films, including The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Ghost, directed by Riccardo Freda and Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Pit and the Pendulum. She guested on various British television shows including the spy drama Danger Man starring Patrick McGoohan. In 2010, she was a guest star in the Dark Shadows audio drama The …