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Enrica Bianchi Colombatto (born July 23, 1942 in Brescia, Lombardy) is an Italian actress, usually known by her stagename of Erika Blanc. Movie career Her most notable role was as the first fictional character Emmanuelle in Io, Emanuelle. Blanc also starred in several horror films, including Kill, Baby, Kill, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Devil's Nightmare, and Mark of the Devil Part II She recently came back with little but very intense roles under the direction of Turkish-born director Ferzan Ozpetek, acting as Antonia's mother in Le fate ignoranti (2001), and as the sensitive, alcohol-addicted Maria Clara in Cuore Sacro (2005). In 2003 she also starred…
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Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an American actress. Early life Barkin was born in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Evelyn, a hospital administrator who worked at Jamaica Hospital, and Sol Barkin, a chemical salesman. Barkin was raised in a lower-middle-class Jewish family, a descendant of immigrants from Siberia and the Russia-Poland border. Barkin received her high school diploma at Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. She then attended Hunter College and double majored in history and drama. At one point, Barkin wanted to teach ancient history. She continued her acting education at New York's Actor's Studio. According to Time, she studied acting …
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Barbara Bach (born Barbara Goldbach, August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She is married to former Beatle Ringo Starr. Life and career Early life Bach was born in Rosedale, New York, and grew up in neighboring Jackson Heights, NY, the daughter of Marjorie and Howard I. Goldbach (1922–2001), a policeman. Her mother is Irish Catholic, her father was Austrian Jewish and her grandmother Romanian. She attended a Catholic high school, Dominican Commercial, in Jamaica, Queens. Bach left school at age 16 to become a model, quickly rising to the ranks of top models. Career In 1971, Bach…
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Morgan Brittany (born Suzanne Cupito on December 5, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television actress. She is possibly best-known for her role in the 1980s primetime soap opera Dallas, where she portrayed Katherine Wentworth, the scheming younger half-sister of Pamela Ewing and Cliff Barnes. Early career Under her birth name, Brittany began her career as a child in 1960 in an episode of the original Twilight Zone series (Nightmare as a Child), as the little girl at the end of the episode, though she was uncredited. She subsequently appeared in the fourth season episode (Valley of the Shadow) as "Sissy Johnson" and the fifth season episode ("Cae…
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Honor Blackman (born 22 August 1925) is an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers (1962–64) and Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964). Life and career Early life Blackman was born in Plaistow, Newham, London. Her father Fred was a statistician. Blackman was educated at Ealing Girls' School in west London and trained as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, after persuading her father on her fifteenth birthday that an appropriate birthday gift would be acting lessons. While attending the Guildhall School she also worked as a clerical assistant for the Home Office. Films Blackman's film debut was a nonspeaking part in …
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Diana Barrymore (March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960) was an American film and stage actress. Early life Born Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe in New York City, New York, she was the daughter of renowned actor John Barrymore and his second wife, poet Blanche Oelrichs. She was stepdaughter of Dolores Costello and half-sister of actor John Drew Barrymore. Her parents' tumultuous marriage lasted only a few years and they divorced when she was four. Educated in Paris, France and at schools in New York City, she had little contact with her estranged father, a situation exacerbated by her mother's bitterness towards him. Her parenting was left to boarding schools and nannies. Ca…
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Maria Bravo (Maria Rosado Bravo) was born on Wednesday, October 18, 1967. She dated actor Bruce Willis. She starred in Carlita's Secret with Eva Longoria.
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Diana Hayden (born 1 May 1973) is a beauty pageant titleholder from India who won the Femina Miss India contest in 1997 and was crowned Miss World 1997. Diana Hayden was born in Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, in a Anglo-Indian family. She attended St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad, until the eight standard. Hayden continued her studies through open schooling and correspondence, and graduated from Osmania University having majored in English. Before she began modeling, she worked for an event management company called Encore. She then worked as a public relations officer at BMG Crescendo, where she assisted in managing the careers of models Anaida a…
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Victoria's Secret 2011 "SWIM" Collection Launch in Los Angeles, March 30
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Emily Bergl Date of Birth: April 25,1975 Place of Birth: Milton Keynes,England Height: 1.65 cm All Movie: 24 Emily Anne Bergl (born 25 April 1975) is an English-American film,stage,and television actress. She is known for her role as Rachel lang on the film 'The Rage: Carrie 2' (1999),Annie O'Donnell on the ABC television show 'Men in Trees' (2006-2008) and Beth Young on 'Desperate Housewives' (2004-2012) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bergl
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Julie Bishop (August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001) was an American film and television actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1923 and 1957. Bishop was born Jacqueline Wells and used her birth name professionally through 1941. She also appeared on stage (and in one film) as Diane Duval. Early in her career she appeared in several Laurel and Hardy films (Any Old Port! and The Bohemian Girl), and she settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros. on the condition that she change her name, which was associated with her almost exclusively B-movie appearances through 1941 (amounting to nearly 50 films over 17 years). She chos…
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Judith Barrett (February 2, 1909 – March 10, 2000), also known as Nancy Dover, was an American film actress of the late 1920s and through the 1930s, up until 1940. Born Lucille Kelley and raised in Arlington, Texas,one of three children and the daughter of a cattle rancher-whom she later claimed as being a "dirt" farmer who died of a broken heart. From these humble beginings she knew, even from a young age the "she" was different from those around her. She loved to laugh, to entertain the adults by singing,dancing and playing "drum" on a turned over metal wash tub. Barrett made several appearances at The Palace Theatre, Dallas while still at school. She did modeling at a…
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Corinne Vilhelma Bohrer (born October 18, 1958) is an American movie and television actress. Biography Early life She grew up in Arlington, Texas, a suburb of the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex area, where she attended Lamar High School. She was active in drama, band and student government. Bohrer has done cosmetic and swim suit modeling. Television work Bohrer's work has included a recurring role as Lianne Mars, the wayward mother of the title character in the CW television series Veronica Mars. Previous roles were more comedic, including her role as a pediatric nurse who had a crush on Elliot Gould in the short-lived CBS situation comedy E/R, a witch in the similarl…
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Grace Bradley (September 21, 1913 – September 21, 2010) was a film actress who was active in Hollywood during the 1930s. Early life She was born on September 21, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York. As a child she took piano lessons and by the age of six she gave her first recital. She attended the Eastman School of Music near Rochester, New York by age twelve after winning a scholarship. Originally she had wanted to become a professional pianist. While in school she took dance lessons and played piano. Her grandfather wanted her to be educated in Berlin, Germany so that she could receive more formal education but a Broadway producer discovered her during one of her dance recita…
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Natascha McElhone Natascha McElhone (born 14 December 1969)[2] is an English actress of stage, screen and television, best known for her roles in Ronin, The Truman Show and Solaris. McElhone also plays a leading role in the Showtime series Californication McElhone was born Natascha Taylor in Surrey, to Irish parents[3] who were both journalists. She took the maiden name of her mother, Noreen, as her stage name.[4] McElhone has a script writer brother Damon who lives in Los Angeles, and two half brothers Alexander and Nicholas, who live in Stockholm. Her parents separated when she was two and her Irish mother subsequently moved the family to Brighton and later married jour…
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Kimberly Williams-Paisley Kimberly Williams-Paisley (born September 14, 1971) is an American actress and director, who is perhaps best known for her co-starring role on the ABC sitcom, According to Jim, as well as her breakthrough performance in the popular comedy film, Father of the Bride, for which she was nominated for several awards (along with its sequel, Father of the Bride Part II). Throughout her acting career, she has guest-starred on television shows including Tales From The Crypt, George Lopez Show and Less Than Perfect. She is also well-known for her roles in made-for-TV movies, including Safe House, The Christmas Shoes, and Lucky 7. and also her role as Laura…
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Claire Holt Claire Holt is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Emma Gilbert on the television show H2O: Just Add Water. Acting career In 2006, Holt won the role of Emma Gilbert in the Network Ten children's television series H2O: Just Add Water. The show has earned a Logie Award and Nickelodeon Australia Kids' Choice Award. While the series was renewed for a third series, Holt left the show after series two after signing on for the sequel to the 2007 film The Messengers, titled Messengers 2: The Scarecrow. Filming took place in Sofia throughout 2008. Starring alongside Norman Reedus and Heather Stephens, the film was released 21 July 2009 straight-to-DVD. …
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Helen Hunt Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress) and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Some of her other Hollywood credits include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want and Pay It Forward. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me. Career Hunt began working in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode o…
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Aylín Mújica (born 24 November 1974) is a Cuban-born actress, model, and ballet dancer who currently lives in Mexico City, Mexico. She was married to television producer Alejandro Gavira, whom she divorced two years ago. Currently, Aylin Mújica is engaged to actor Gabriel Valenzuela with whom she has a child. Biography Mújica began modeling at age 13. She posed nude in the Spanish magazine Interviu and appeared in a sexy photoshoot at the H para Hombres magazine as well. Mújica also appeared in several Mexican TV shows, including TV Azteca's morning weekend TV Show "Tempranito" and Televisa's "La Dueña". In 2006 she began working for Telemundo when she starred in the t…
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Olesya Rulin Olesya Rulin Born March 17, 1986 (1986-03-17) (age 25) Moscow, Russia Occupation Actress, singer Years active 2001–present Olesya Rulin (Russian: Oлeся Pулин; born March 17, 1986) is a Russian-American actress and singer who is perhaps best known for co-starring in the first three films of the High School Musical franchise as Kelsi Nielsen. She also stars alongside Jessica Simpson in Major Movie Star, and is set to star with Billy Ray Cyrus in the new drama Flying By. Early life Rulin was born Olesya Rulinkova in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She spent her early childhood in the poor, 12-house village Likhoslavl[1] located three hours north of Mos…
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Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is a British television, film and theatre actress. Early life Beacham, one of four children, was born in Barnet, England, the daughter of Joan, a housewife, and a father who was an insurance executive and the managing director of the Grosvenor estate. Shortly after birth, she was diagnosed as being completely deaf in her right ear, as her mother had contracted chickenpox during her pregnancy. She has about 75% of normal hearing capacity in her left ear. She attended a Catholic girls' school (although she was not raised Catholic) and later travelled to Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France to study mime with Étienne Decroux, bef…
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Debi Mazar Deborah "Debi" Mazar (pronounced /məˈzɑr/ or /ˈmeɪzɑr/;[1] born August 13, 1964) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her trademark Jersey Girl-type appearances, and as edgy, sharp-tongued women in independent films and her recurring role on the HBO series Entourage as Shauna Roberts. Early life Mazar was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the daughter of Nancy and Harry Mazar. Her father was born in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, of Jewish ancestry, but raised in the Roman Catholic Church. She had no knowledge of this ancestral ethnic heritage until her twenties. Her mother was raised a Roman Catholic, briefly converted to Judaism, then became a Bud…
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I can't believe she's not on here. I'll kick this off. Anyone else?
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