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I couldn't seem to find a thread on her so I decided to make one. Date of Birth 10 October 1966, Chengdu, China Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) Mini Biography: Born in the Szechwan province of China in 1966, Ling Bai began her show business career when she was in grade school with the school choir. When she was 14, she enlisted in the Chinese People's Liberation Army where she spent three years in a performance troop entertaining soldiers stationed in Tibet. After her service, Ling became a performer in a local theater in Beijing where she eventually became involved in the pro-Democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. As a result of her involvement, Ling emigrated to …
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Erica Durance, age 26, is one of Smallville's newest additions, appearing as Lois Lane in 13 episodes of the show's fourth season beginning September 22, 2004. Also sometimes credited as Erica Parker, she has appeared in episodes of Andromeda and The Chris Isaak Show. She was also in the movie "House of the Dead." "Of all the different female leads in comics, Lois Lane was always my favorite because she was so involved," she said in a New York Post interview. "She was always so involved in everything going on — she's a go-getter, she was really in there, quite tough and kind of a hero in her own right." Previous Credits: (Television) Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, The Chris…
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Mariana Ximenes do Prado Nuzzi, commonly known as Mariana Ximenes (born on April 26, 1981 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actress. In 2003, she was one of the lead actors in the Rede Globo telenovela Chocolate com Pimenta, where she portrayed the character Ana Francisca. In 2005, she played the role of Raíssa in the Rede Globo telenovela América. In 2006, she was one of the lead actors in the TV Globo telenovela Cobras & Lagartos, playing the role of Bel; and in 2008, one of the stars of A Favorita, by the Rede Globo. She currently portrays Clara, the main villain of Passione, by the Rede Globo. She received critical acclaim for her role in this telenovela. Mariana Xime…
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Welch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada and Josephine Sarah Hall. Her father, who immigrated from La Paz, Bolivia, was an aerospace engineer of Castilian Spanish descent; her mother was an Irish-American.[1] In 1942, Armando Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California. The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Welch grew up. She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," and "Miss San Diego." In 1957, she was named "Miss Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair. After a…
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Monica Vitti Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931 in Rome) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni. Training and early career While a teenager she acted in amateur productions, then trained as an actor at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and at Pitman's, where she played a teen in a charity performance of Niccodemi's La memica. She toured Germany with an Italian acting troupe and her first stage appearance in Rome was for a production of Niccolò Machiavelli's La Mandragola. Vitti's first film role was in Ettore Scola's Ridere Ridere Ridere (1954). In 1957 she joined Michelangelo Antonioni's T…
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Tippi Hedren Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress with a career spanning six decades. She is best known for her role as Melanie Daniels in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983. Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, and they share credits on six films, notably Pacific Heights (1990). Contents Biography Hedren was born in New Ulm, Minnesota to a Swedish father and a German-Norwegian mother. Her father ran a small general store in the small town of Lafayette, Minnesota. Her father gave her the moniker "Tippi"…
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Vivien Leigh Born: November 5, 1913 Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India (now India) Died: July 8, 1967, aged 53 London, England Spouse(s): Herbert Leigh Holman (1932-1940) Laurence Olivier (1940-1960) Academy Awards Best Actress 1939 Gone with the Wind 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Tony Awards Best Leading Actress in a Musical 1963 Tovarich Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967) was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, fre…
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Nicola Mary Coughlan (/ˈkɒklən/; born 9 January 1987) is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles as Clare Devlin in Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls (2018–2022) and Penelope Featherington in Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020–present). Early life Coughlan was born on 9 January 1987 in Galway, Ireland, and grew up in Oranmore. At the age of five, when watching her older sister performing in a school play, she decided to become an actress. She attended Scoil Mhuire for primary school and Calasanctius College for secondary school. She graduated with a degree in English and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She then we…
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Biography: Amy Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress. Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, the daughter of American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, who was a U.S. serviceman stationed in Italy. She grew up as one of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado and attended Douglas County High School. Adams was raised in the LDS religion, although her family left the church after Adams's parents divorced when she was eleven. While working at the famous dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota, she was discovered by a movie producer. Shortly after she was cast in her first comedic role in Drop Dead Gorgeous. Having appear…
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Ellie has recently filmed the role of Lydia Bennet in the forthcoming feature Pride and Prejudice and Zombies directed by Burr Steers. She will soon begin rehearsals for the role of Dinah in Maria Friedman's production of High Society for the Old Vic Theatre. Ellie also features in Carol Morley's film The Falling which premiered at the 2014 London Film Festival. Her television experience includes The Musketeers for BBC1 and A Mother's Son for ITV1. Ellie's further theatre experience includes the role of Young Jenny in Trevor Nunn's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Jameson Empire Awards 2015, London, Mar 29…
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Emilia Annis I. Jones (born 23 February 2002) is an English actress, singer, and lyricist. She is most known for performing the lead role in the 2021 film CODA as Ruby Rossi in which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress. She is also known for playing Kinsey Locke in the Netflix series Locke & Key (2020–), while also having additional early roles in television such as Doctor Who and Utopia, and lead characters in films like Brimstone, Ghostland, and Horrible Histories. PhotoShoot for "Who What Wear" Magazine - 16 Aug 2021
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Lily James Lily James (born 5 April 1989) is an English actress, best known for her role in the period TV drama, Downton Abbey James was born Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson in Esher, Surrey, England. She began her education at Arts Educational School in Tring and subsequently went on to study acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 2010. Lily played the role of Katrina in Play House alongside Obi Abili and Marijka, and in Definitely the Bahamas alongside Ian Gelder and Kate Fahy. This is a double bill written and directed by Martin Crimp at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond as part of their fortieth anniversary. Her other theatre credi…
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Jessica Chastain Jessica Chastain, (born March 29, 1981) is an American film and television actress. Career Her first professional role came in 2004 for a TV movie adaptation of Dark Shadows. She later appeared in such television series as ER, Veronica Mars, Close to Home, and Law & Order: Trial By Jury. In 2008, she made her film debut as the title role in Jolene, for which she received the Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Her next film, the portrayal of a young Mossad agent in John Madden's The Debt, was premiered at film festivals in 2010 but had its theatrical release delayed until August 2011. She has a number of other projects schedu…
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Bio Added* Birth name Julia Fiona Roberts Nickname Jules Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) Mini biography Julia Fiona Roberts, born in Smyrna, Georgia, never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. As a child, due to her love of animals, Julia originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism. When her brother, Eric Roberts, achieved some success in Hollywood, Julia decided to try acting. Her first break came in 1988 when she appeared in two youth-oriented movies Mystic Pizza (1988) and Satisfaction (1988). The movies introduced her to a new audience who instantly fell in love with this pretty woman. Julia's biggest …
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Lupita Nyong'o (born 1983) is a Kenyan actress and filmmaker. She made her American film debut in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013), as Patsey. Personal life Nyong'o was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1983, to a Kenyan family, and was raised primarily in Kenya. Her parents are Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, a politician. Peter was the former Kenyan Minister for Medical Services and was elected in 2013 to represent Kisumu County in the Kenyan Senate. Her cousin Isis Nyong'o was named one of Africa's most powerful women by Forbes magazine in 2012. Education and career Nyong'o attended university in the United States. After graduating from Hampshire College wi…
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Clara Galle is an Spaniard actress and model born on April 15, 2002, in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. She is known for her role as Raquel Mendoza in Netflix's A Tráves trilogy consisting of: - A Través De Mi Ventana (Through My Window), 2022 - A Través Del Mar (Across the Sea), 2023 - A Través De Tu Mirada (Looking at You), 2024 In 2022 she starred in the second season of Prime Video's El Internado: Las Cumbres (El internado: Las Cumbres) as Eva Merino. She was part of the third season of the HBO (Asia) show The Head as Alba. She has also been part of the 2024 limited series Ni Una Más (Raising Voices) as Greta and the 2025 series Olympo as Amaia Olaberria, both for Netfl…
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Birth name Demetria Gene Guynes Date of birth (location) 11 November 1962 Roswell, New Mexico, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Measurements: 33-22-33 (young model 1980), 36C-26-36 (after implants in 1996) /source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mini biography Demi Moore was born 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father left her mother, Victoria, before Demi was born. Her stepfather, Danny Guynes, didn't add much stability to her life, either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 …
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French actress and singer. Date of birth: 20/11/1966 Tv shows: 1991, Premiers baisers 1992, Hélène et les Garçons 1994, Le Miracle de l'amour 2000, Les vacances de l' amour 2011, Les Mystères de l'amour
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Formation 2010-2011 Méthode Meisner avec Scott WILLIAMS (en anglais) - 2004-2005 Atelier Damien Acoca - 2001-2002 Studio Pygmalion - 1999-2001 Conservation d’Art Dramatique (Montpellier) - Cinéma 2012 NE QUELQUE PART - Mohamed HAMIDI 2010 BEUR SUR LA VILLE - Djamel BENSALAH 2009 CAMPING 2 - Fabien ONTENIENTE 2008 CYPRIEN - David CHARHON …
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From Wikipedia Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary actress and singer Judy Garland and her second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli. Minnelli came from a well-known artistic family; her maternal lineage had entertainers in the family going back six generations.[1] Her famous mother had success in film and in music, and her aunts had been part of a singing group, "The Gumm Sisters," with her mother. Her father was a noted film director. Minnelli's first film appearance was at the age of three in the final scene of the 1949…
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Date of birth (location) 17 April 1972 Houston, Texas, USA Mini biography Jennifer Garner, who has catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the series "Alias" (2001), has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia, by her mother Pat, a retired English teacher, and her father, Bill, a former chemical engineer, Jennifer was the middle sibling of three girls. She spent nine years of her adolescence studying ballet and describes her years in dance as ones characterized by determination, rather than talent, being driven mostly by a love of the stage. Jennifer took this determination with her when she enrolled at Denison…
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Emma Samms (born Emma Samuelson on August 28, 1960, in London) is a British television actress. Wikipedia : Biography Emma Samuelson trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School but had to stop dancing at 15 after an injury to her hip. She then decided to train as an actress, changing her name to Emma Samms as there was already an Emma Samuelson registered at actors union Equity. Career Samms has played Holly Sutton Scorpio on the daytime soap opera General Hospital in three stints: 1982 to 1985; 1992 to 1993; and again in 2006. During her early 90's tenure with the show, she also played the role of Holly's lookalike half-sister, Paloma, who was a heroic rev…
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Ashley Scott Ashley McCall Scott (born July 13, 1977) is an American actress. She is known for her work on television and in film, including her roles in the television series Dark Angel and Birds of Prey. Early life Scott was born in Metairie, Louisiana to Joe Scott, a nurse,(www.ashleyscotthaven.com)and Andrea Meister, an administrative assistant. She was raised in Charleston, South Carolina as the middle child between two brothers. Scott began her career as a young girl when she began modeling. While living in Charleston she entered a Millie Lewis Talent Competition. Though she forgot her TV commercial, she was so good on her recove…
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María Fernanda Yépes (born December 23, 1980 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and model, who is mostly known for playing Yésica "La Diabla", a crude and manipulative girl who worked recruiting, selecting, and leading groups of women for whom drug dealers would pay in advance to receive sexual services in return in the Telemundo hit series Sin Senos no hay Paraíso. Personal life María Fernanda Yepés started modeling in her country Colombia at the age of 14. As a model she has been part of important national and international campaigns including one of Colombia's top female intimates apparel. Most recently she was seen as a print model for the Swimwear line…
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