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- Slim, sexy, and adorable 5'4' blonde bombshell Prinzzess was born Sarah Pershing on February 6, 1985 in Florida. She's of primarily Cherokee and Seminole Indian descent. Prinzzess grew up as a tomboy in an Amish community in Belize where her parents were missionaries. Prinzzess did her first hardcore porn shoot with Jessica Jaymes at age 18. Moreover, she was the Pet of the Month in the October, 2004 issue of Penthouse magazine and the Twistys Treat of the Month for August, 2010. Among the notable companies Prinzzess has appeared in X-rated features for are Vivid, Hustler, and Wicked Pictures. She signed an exclusive contract with the top lesbian company Girlfriends Films in July, 2009. Prinzzess was nominated for an AVN Awards for both Best Solo Sex Scene and Best All-Girls Couples Sex Scene in 2011. She was nominated for an additional AVN Award for Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene in 2012. Prinzzess has a pierced navel.1 - Women Seeking Women 49 (2008)
2 - Women Seeking Women 50 (2009)
3 - Women Seeking Women 51 (2009)
4 - Field of Schemes 4 (2009)
5 - Imperfect Angels 7 (2009)
6 - Lesbian Legal 1 (2009)
7 - Field of Schemes 6 (2009)
8 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 8 (2009)
9 - Women Seeking Women 55 (2009)
10 - Lesbian Legal 3 (2009)
11 - Bus Stops 1 (2009)
12 - Bus Stops 2 (2009)
13 - Pin-Up Girls 1 (2009)
14 - Pin-Up Girls 2 (2010)
15 - Pin-Up Girls 3 (2010)
16 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 12 (2010)
17 - Lesbian Legal 7 (2010)
18 - Women Seeking Women 61 (2010)
19 - GirlZtown (2010)
20 - Field of Schemes 7 (2010)
21 - House Hunters 1 (2010)
22 - Women Seeking Women 62 (2010)
23 - Net Skirts 1.0 (2010)
24 - Pin-Up Girls 4 (2010)
25 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 13 (2010)
26 - Lesbian House Hunters 2 (2010)
27 - Pin-Up Girls 5 (2010)
28 - Women Seeking Women 65 (2010)
29 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 15 (2010)
30 - Women Seeking Women 66 (2010)
31 - Lesbian Seductions: Older/Younger 33 (2010)
32 - Bus Stops 3 (2010)
33 - Lesbian House Hunters 5 (2010)
34 - Lesbian Psychodramas 5 (2010)
35 - Lesbian Triangles 20 (2011)
36 - Net Skirts 5.0 (2011)
37 - Girls in White 2011, part 1 (2011)
38 - Fashion House 1 (2011)
39 - Lesbian House Hunters 6 (2011)
40 - Lesbian Psychodramas 6 (2011)
41 - Women Seeking Women 71 (2011)
42 - Net Skirts 6.0 (2011)
43 - Lesbian Triangles 21 (2011)
44 - Please Make Me Lesbian 1 (2011)
45 - Lesbian Seductions: Older/Younger 37 (2011)
46 - Lesbian Sex 1 (2011)
47 - Perfect Fit (2011)
48 - Women Seeking Wmen 79 (2012)
49 - Lesbian Seductions: Older/Younger 40 (2012)
50 - Women Seeking Women 81 (2012)
51 - Please Make Me Lesbian 7 (2012)
52 - Women Seeking Women 82 (2012)
53 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 24 (2012)
54 - Lesbian Sex 7 (2012)
55 - Lesbian Seductions: Older/Younger 41 (2012)
56 - Women Seeking Women 84 (2012)
57 - Pin-Up Girls 7 (2012)
58 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 25 (2012)
59 - Lesbian Psychodramas 10 (2012)
60 - Lesbian Sex 9 (2012)
61 - Please Make Me Lesbian 8 (2012)
62 - Lesbian Triangles 27 (2013)
63 - Women Seeking Women 94 (2013)
64 - Net Skirts 11.0 (2013)
65 - Women Seeking Women 96 (2013)
66 - Twisted Passions 9 (2013)
67 - Women Seeking Women 98 (2013)
68 - Cheer Squad Sleepovers 7 (2013)
69 - Women Seeking Women 99 (2013)
70 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 30 (2013)
71 - Women Seeking Women 100 (2013)
72 - Women Seeking Women 101 (2014)
73 - Mother-Daughter Exchange club 31 (2014)
74 - Women Seeking Women 102 (2014)
75 - Twisted Passions 10 (2014)
76 - Please Make Me Lesbian 12 (2014)
77 - Newswomen 4 (2014)
78 - Lesbian Psychodramas 15 (2014)
79 - Women Seeking Women 108 (2014)
80 - The Beautiful Solo 3 (2014)
81 - Twisted Passions 11 (2014)
82 - Women Seeking Women 111 (2014)
83 - Lesbian House Hunters 10 (2015)
84 - Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 38 (2015)
85 - Lesbian Seductions: Older/Younger 53 (2016)
86 - Twisted Passions 16 (2016)
87 - Twisted Passions 18 (2016)
88 - Women Seeking Women 133 (2016)
89 - Bad Lesbian 6 (2016)
90 - Twisted Passions 20 (2017)
91 - Brandi Love and Her Girlfriends (2017)
92 - India Summer and Her Girlfriends (2017)
93 - Lesbian Legal 11 (2017)
94 - Prinzzess and Her Girlfriends 2 (2017)
95 - Adriana Chechik and Her Girlfriends (2017)
96 - Please Make Me Lesbian 14 (2017)
97 - Twisted Passions 23 (2017)
98 - Lesbian Seductions: Older/Younger 60 (2017)
99 - Net Skirts 18.0 (2017)
100 - Please Make Me Lesbian 17 (2018)
101 - Prinzzess and Her Girlfriends 3 (2018)
102 - Aiden Ashley and Her Girlfriends (2018)
103 - Women Seeking Women 156 (2018)
104 - Lesbian Psychodramas 30 (2018)
105 - Scissoring: It's a Girlfriend's Thing (2018)
106 - Lesbian Seductions: Older/Younger 65 (2018)
107 - 3somes : It's a Girlfriend's Thing (2019)
108 - Lesbian Seductions 66 (2019)
109 - Lesbian Psychodramas 33 (2019)
110 - Vibes : It's a Girlfriend's Thing (2020)
111 - Lesbian Seductions 70 (2020)
112 - 69flavors 2 : It's a Girlfriend's Thing (2020) - Actor
- Director
- Producer
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi) and Sal Pacino. They divorced when he was young. His mother moved them into his grandparents' home in the South Bronx. Pacino found himself often repeating the plots and voices of characters he had seen in the movies. Bored and unmotivated in school, he found a haven in school plays, and his interest soon blossomed into a full-time career. Starting onstage, he went through a period of depression and poverty, sometimes having to borrow bus fare to succeed to auditions. He made it into the prestigious Actors Studio in 1966, studying under Lee Strasberg, creator of the Method Approach that would become the trademark of many 1970s-era actors.
After appearing in a string of plays in supporting roles, Pacino finally attained success off-Broadway with Israel Horovitz's "The Indian Wants the Bronx", winning an Obie Award for the 1966-67 season. That was followed by a Tony Award for "Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie?" His first feature films made little departure from the gritty realistic stage performances that earned him respect: he played a drug addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) after his film debut in Me, Natalie (1969). The role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) was one of the most sought-after of the time: Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, Robert De Niro and a host of other actors either wanted it or were mentioned, but director Francis Ford Coppola wanted Pacino for the role.
Coppola was successful but Pacino was reportedly in constant fear of being fired during the very difficult shoot. The film was a monster hit that earned Pacino his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. However, instead of taking on easier projects for the big money he could now command, Pacino threw his support behind what he considered tough but important films, such as the true-life crime drama Serpico (1973) and the tragic real-life bank robbery film Dog Day Afternoon (1975). He was nominated three consecutive years for the "Best Actor" Academy Award. He faltered slightly with Bobby Deerfield (1977), but regained his stride with And Justice for All (1979), for which he received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Unfortunately, this would signal the beginning of a decline in his career, which produced flops like Cruising (1980) and Author! Author! (1982).
Pacino took on another vicious gangster role and cemented his legendary status in the ultra-violent cult film Scarface (1983), but a monumental mistake was about to follow. Revolution (1985) endured an endless and seemingly cursed shoot in which equipment was destroyed, weather was terrible, and Pacino fell ill with pneumonia. Constant changes in the script further derailed the project. The Revolutionary War-themed film, considered among the worst films ever made, resulted in awful reviews and kept him off the screen for the next four years. Returning to the stage, Pacino did much to give back and contribute to the theatre, which he considers his first love. He directed a film, The Local Stigmatic (1990), but it remains unreleased. He lifted his self-imposed exile with the striking Sea of Love (1989) as a hard-drinking policeman. This marked the second phase of Pacino's career, being the first to feature his now famous dark, owl eyes and hoarse, gravelly voice.
Returning to the Corleones, Pacino made The Godfather Part III (1990) and earned raves for his first comedic role in the colorful adaptation Dick Tracy (1990). This earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and two years later he was nominated for Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). He went into romantic mode for Frankie and Johnny (1991). In 1992, he finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his amazing performance in Scent of a Woman (1992). A mixture of technical perfection (he plays a blind man) and charisma, the role was tailor-made for him, and remains a classic.
The next few years would see Pacino becoming more comfortable with acting and movies as a business, turning out great roles in great films with more frequency and less of the demanding personal involvement of his wilder days. Carlito's Way (1993) proved another gangster classic, as did the epic crime drama Heat (1995) directed by Michael Mann and co-starring Robert De Niro. He directed the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Looking for Richard (1996). During this period, City Hall (1996), Donnie Brasco (1997) and The Devil's Advocate (1997) all came out. Reteaming with Mann and then Oliver Stone, he gave commanding performances in The Insider (1999) and Any Given Sunday (1999).
In the 2000s, Pacino starred in a number of theatrical blockbusters, including Ocean's Thirteen (2007), but his choice in television roles (the vicious, closeted Roy Cohn in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003) and his sensitive portrayal of Jack Kevorkian, in the television movie You Don't Know Jack (2010)) are reminiscent of the bolder choices of his early career. Each television project garnered him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Never wed, Pacino has a daughter, Julie Marie, with acting teacher Jan Tarrant, and a set of twins with former longtime girlfriend Beverly D'Angelo. His romantic history includes Jill Clayburgh, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Carole Mallory, Debra Winger, Tuesday Weld, Marthe Keller, Carmen Cervera, Kathleen Quinlan, Lyndall Hobbs, Penelope Ann Miller, and a two-decade intermittent relationship with "Godfather" co-star Diane Keaton. He currently lives with Argentinian actress Lucila Solá, who is 36 years his junior.
As of 2022, Pacino is 82-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and continues to appear regularly in film.1 - The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
2 - The Godfather (1972)
3 - Serpico (1973)
4 - Scarecrow (1973)
5 - The Godfather: Part II (1974)
6 - Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
7 - ...and justice for all. (1979)
8 - Author! Author! (1982)
9 - Scarface (1983)
10 - Revolution (1985)
11 - Sea of Love (1989)
12 - The Godfather: Part III (1990)
13 - Dick Tracy (1990)
14 - Frankie and Johnny (1991)
15 - Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
16 - Scent of a Woman (1992)
17 - Carlito's Way (1993)
18 - Heat (1995)
19 - Two Bits (1995)
20 - City Hall (1996)
21 - Donnie Brasco (1997)
22 - The Devil's Advocate (1997)
23 - The Insider (1999)
24 - Any Given Sunday (1999)
25 - S1m0ne (2002)
26 - Insomnia (2002)
27 - People I Know (2002)
28 - The Recruit (2003)
29 - The Merchant of Venice (2004)
30 - Two for the Money (2005)
31 - Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
32 - 88 Minutes (2007)
33 - Righteous Kill (2008)
34 - The Son of No One (2011)
35 - Danny Collins (2015)
36 - Misconduct (2016)
37 - The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
38 - Hangman (2017)
39 - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
40 - House of Gucci (2021)- Music Artist
- Actor
- Music Department
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Presley (née Gladys Love Smith) and Vernon Presley (Vernon Elvis Presley). He had a twin brother who was stillborn. In 1948, Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he attended Humes High School. In 1953, he attended the senior prom with the current girl he was courting, Regis Wilson. After graduating from high school in Memphis, Elvis took odd jobs working as a movie theater usher and a truck driver for Crown Electric Company. He began singing locally as "The Hillbilly Cat", then signed with a local recording company, and then with RCA in 1955.
Elvis did much to establish early rock and roll music. He began his career as a performer of rockabilly, an up-tempo fusion of country music and rhythm and blues, with a strong backbeat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, made him popular - and controversial - as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Jailhouse Rock" and "Hound Dog" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop music. Teenage girls became hysterical over his blatantly sexual gyrations, particularly the one that got him nicknamed "Elvis the Pelvis" (television cameras were not permitted to film below his waist).
In 1956, following his six television appearances on The Dorsey Brothers' "Stage Show", Elvis was cast in his first acting role, in a supporting part in Love Me Tender (1956), the first of 33 movies he starred in.
In 1958, Elvis was drafted into the military, and relocated to Bad Nauheim, Germany. There he met 14-year old army damsel Priscilla Ann Wagner (Priscilla Presley), whom he would eventually marry after an eight-year courtship, and by whom he had his only child, Lisa Marie Presley. Elvis' military service and the "British Invasion" of the 1960s reduced his concerts, though not his movie/recording income.
Through the 1960s, Elvis settled in Hollywood, where he starred in the majority of his thirty-three movies, mainly musicals, acting alongside some of the most well known actors in Hollywood. Critics panned most of his films, but they did very well at the box office, earning upwards of $150 million total. His last fiction film, Change of Habit (1969), deals with several social issues; romance within the clergy, an autistic child, almost unheard of in 1969, rape, and mob violence. It has recently received critical acclaim.
Elvis made a comeback in the 1970s with live concert appearances starting in early 1970 in Las Vegas with over 57 sold-out shows. He toured throughout the United States, appearing on-stage in over 500 live appearances, many of them sold out shows. His marriage ended in divorce, and the stress of constantly traveling as well as his increasing weight gain and dependence upon stimulants and depressants took their toll.
Elvis Presley died at age 42 on August 16, 1977 at his mansion in Graceland, near Memphis, shocking his fans worldwide. At the time of his death, he had sold more than 600 million singles and albums. Since his death, Graceland has become a shrine for millions of followers worldwide. Elvis impersonators and purported sightings have become stock subjects for humorists. To date, Elvis Presley is the only performer to have been inducted into three separate music 'Halls of Fame'. Throughout his career, he set records for concert attendance, television ratings and recordings sales, and remains one of the best-selling and most influential artists in the history of popular music.1 - Love Me Tender (1956)
2 - Jailhouse Rock (1957)
3 - King Creole (1958)
4 - G.I. Blues (1960)
5 - Flaming Star (1960)
6 - Wild in the Country (1961)
7 - Blue Hawaii (1961)
8 - Follow That Dream (1962)
9 - Kid Galahad (1962)
10 - Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
11 - It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
12 - Fun in Acapulco (1963)
13 - Kissin' Cousins (1964)
14 - Viva Las Vegas (1964)
15 - Roustabout (1964)
16 - Girl Happy (1965)
17 - Harum Scarum (1965)
18 - Frankie and Johnny (1966)
19 - Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
20 - Spinout (1966)
21 - Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
22 - Double Trouble (1967)
23 - Clambake (1967)
24 - Stay Away, Joe (1968)
25 - Speedway (1968)
26 - Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
27 - Elvis '68 Comeback Special (1968)
28 - Charro! (1969)
29 - The Trouble with Girls (1969)
30 - Elvis : That's The Way It Is (1970)
31 - Elvis On Tour (1972)
32 - Elvis : Aloha From Hawaii (1973)- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in 1976, and attended one year at the Golden West College, where she studied to become a court reporter. But it was while working as a supermarket checker at Vons, a large Southern California grocery chain, that she realized her true calling. She was married to actor/director Peter Horton ("Gary" of Thirtysomething (1987)) in 1981. They were later divorced, and she then had a three year relationship with actor Fisher Stevens. When that didn't work out, Pfeiffer decided she didn't want to wait any longer before having her own family, and in March of 1993, she adopted a baby girl, Claudia Rose. On November 13th of the same year, she married lawyer-turned-writer/producer David E. Kelley, creator of Picket Fences (1992), Chicago Hope (1994), The Practice (1997), and Boston Public (2000). On August 5, 1994 their son, John Henry was born.1 - Grease 2 (1982)
2 - Scarface (1983)
3 - Into the Night (1985)
4 - The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
5 - Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
6 - Tequila Sunrise (1988)
7 - The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
8 - Frankie and Johnny (1991)
9 - Batman Returns (1992)
10 - The Age of Innocence (1993)
11 - Wolf (1994)
12 - Dangerous Minds (1995)
13 - One Fine Day (1996)
14 - Up Close & Personal (1996)
15 - A Thousand Acres (1997)
36 - The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
17 - The Story of Us (1999)
18 - What Lies Beneath (2000)
19 - I Am Sam (2001)
20 - I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
21 - Chéri (2009)
22 - New Year's Eve (2011)
23 - Dark Shadows (2012)
24 - The Family (2013)
25 - Mother! (2017)
26 - Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
27 - Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) MCU 20
28 - Avengers: Endgame (2019) MCU 22
29 - Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
30 - Ant-Man and the Wasp:Quantumania (2023) MCU 31- Producer
- Actor
- Executive
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for El Pollo Loco.
Pitt's earliest credited roles were in television, starting on the daytime soap opera Another World (1964) before appearing in the recurring role of Randy on the legendary prime time soap opera Dallas (1978). Following a string of guest appearances on various television series through the 1980s, Pitt gained widespread attention with a small part in Thelma & Louise (1991), in which he played a sexy criminal who romanced and conned Geena Davis. This led to starring roles in badly received films such as Johnny Suede (1991) & Cool World (1992).
But Pitt's career hit an upswing with his casting in A River Runs Through It (1992), which cemented his status as an multi-layered actor as opposed to just a pretty face. Pitt's subsequent projects were as quirky and varied in tone as his performances, ranging from his unforgettably comic cameo as stoner roommate Floyd in True Romance (1993) to romantic roles in such visually lavish films as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Legends of the Fall (1994), to an emotionally tortured detective in the horror-thriller Se7en (1995). His portrayal of frenetic oddball Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys (1995) won him a Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
Pitt's portrayal of Achilles in the big-budget period drama Troy (2004) helped establish his appeal as an action star and was closely followed by a co-starring role in the stylish spy-versus-spy flick Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). It was on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith that Pitt, who married Jennifer Aniston in a highly publicized ceremony in 2000, met Angelina Jolie. Pitt left Aniston for Jolie in 2005, a break-up that continues to fuel tabloid stories years after its occurrence.
He continues to wildly vary his film choices, appearing in everything from high-concept popcorn flicks such as Megamind (2010) to adventurous critic-bait like Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Tree of Life (2011). He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In 2014, he starred in the war film Fury (2014), opposite Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña.
Pitt and Jolie have 6 children, 3 adopted & 3 biological.1 - 21 Jump Street S2E20 Best Years of Your Life (1988)
2 - Too Young to Die? (1990)
3 - Thelma & Louise (1991)
4 - Cool World (1992)
5 - True Romance (1993)
6 - Interview with the Vampire (1994)
7 - Legends of the Fall (1994)
8 - Twelve Monkeys (1995)
9 - Se7en (1995)
10 - Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
11 - The Devil's Own (1997)
12 - Meet Joe Black (1998)
13 - Friends S8E9 The One with the Rumor (2001)
14 - Ocean's Eleven (2001)
15 - Spy Game (2001)
16 - Ocean's Twelve (2004)
17 - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
18 - Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
19 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
20 - Burn After Reading (2008)
21 - Inglourious Basterds (2009)
22 - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
23 - The Counselor (2013)
24 - Allied (2016)
25 - Deadpool 2 (2018)
26 - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
27 - The Lost City (2022)
28 - Babylon (2022)- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where her father began working in summer stock productions in the Berkshires. It was here that she received her early acting training under the tutelage of her parents. She graduated from the all-girls Spence School in New York City and moved to California where she attended the UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Art History. She soon quit, realizing it was not her passion. She made her film debut with a small part in Shout (1991) and for the next five years had featured roles in a mixed bag of film fare that included Flesh and Bone (1993); Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994); Se7en (1995); Jefferson in Paris (1995); Moonlight and Valentino (1995); and The Pallbearer (1996). It was her performance in the title role of Emma Woodhouse in Emma (1996) that led to her being offered the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which she was awarded the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her roles have also included The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Shallow Hal (2001), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Proof (2005), Iron Man (2008), Two Lovers (2008), and Country Strong (2010). She has two children with her former husband, English musician Chris Martin.1 - Hook (1991)
2 - Malice (1993)
3 - Se7en (1995)
4 - The Pallbearer (1996)
5 - Emma (1996)
6 - Sliding Doors (1998)
7 - A Perfect Murder (1998)
8 - Shakespeare in Love (1998)
9 - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
10 - Bounce (2000)
11 - Shallow Hal (2001)
12 - Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
13 - Sylvia (2003)
14 - View from the Top (2003)
15 - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
16 - Proof (2005)
17 - The Good Night (2007)
18 - Iron Man (2008) MCU 01
19 - Iron Man 2 (2010) MCU 03
20 - Contagion (2011)
21 - Thanks for Sharing (2012)
22 - The Avengers (2012) MCU 06
23 - Iron Man Three (2013) MCU 07
24 - Mortdecai (2015)
25 - Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) MCU 16
26 - Avengers: Infinity War (2018) MCU 19
27 - Avengers: Endgame (2019) MCU 22- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio, to Barbra Forste (née Keck), a teacher who ran a nursery school, and Stephen Parker, a journalist. Her parents divorced, and her mother later remarried to Paul Forste and had four more children, bringing the total to eight. Sarah now had 3 full siblings and 4 half siblings. Her father was of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, and her mother had German, and some English, roots.
Trained in singing and ballet, Sarah was cast in the Broadway production of "The Innocents", which prompted her family to relocate to New Jersey. Already a professional performer (she studied at the American Ballet School and the Professional Children's School), Sarah was cast in "The Sound of Music" (along with four of her siblings), and landed the lead in the Broadway run of "Annie". After a year as the free-spirited orphan, Sarah attended Dwight Morrow High School, while continuing to add more credits to her acting resume. She landed a role in the made-for-TV movie My Body, My Child (1982), before being cast as one of the lead roles in the 1982 sitcom Square Pegs (1982), as high-schooler Patty Green.
Once a graduate, Sarah decided to pursue a full-time acting career rather than further her education. Since Square Pegs (1982) did not last more than a year, Sarah moved on to supporting film roles in movies such as Footloose (1984), Firstborn (1984), and the lead role in the teenage film Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985). Sarah was having lots of fun, although she had yet to land a star-turning role. After more television appearances in series and made-for-TV movies including A Year in the Life (1986), The Room Upstairs (1987) and Dadah Is Death (1988), Sarah finally landed the role of Steve Martin's bubbly lover in the 1991 comedy L.A. Story (1991). More substantial film roles soon followed, starting with a role opposite Nicolas Cage in Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) (which foreshadowed her comedic talent), Hocus Pocus (1993) and Ed Wood (1994).
A big Woody Allen fan, she starred opposite the renowned filmmaker in the television movie The Sunshine Boys (1996), and that same year, she landed a starring role in Miami Rhapsody (1995). 1996 was a film intensive year with roles in The First Wives Club (1996), If Lucy Fell (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996). All the while making a name for herself in film, Sarah was gaining respect as a theater actress, with her lead role as a dog (hard to imagine, but true) in the off-Broadway "Sylvia", and her Broadway roles in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (starring her present husband, Matthew Broderick), and the Tony-Award nominated "Once Upon a Mattress".
But Sarah's star has shot up since her portrayal of Manhattan sex-columnist Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998). Sarah's Golden Globe Best Actress victory in 2000 only underscores the fact that she plays the role of Carrie as though it were literally written for her. Sarah has been happily married to fellow actor Matthew Broderick for quite a while now. Before the marriage, she dated Robert Downey Jr. (who she also lived with), and the late John Kennedy Jr. When not serving as lead actress and producer of Sex and the City (1998), Sarah is a member of Hollywood's Women's Political Committee, and is UNICEF's representative for the Performing Arts.1 - Footloose (1984)
2 - Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
3 - Striking Distance (1993)
4 - Hocus Pocus (1993)
5 - Mars Attacks! (1996)
6 - The First Wives Club (1996)
7 - 'Til There Was You (1997)
8 - Sex and the City season 1 (1998)
9 - Sex and the City season 2 (1999)
10 - Sex and the City season 3 (2000)
11 - Sex and the City season 4 (2001/02)
12 - Sex and the City season 5 (2002)
13 - Sex and the City season 6 (2003/04)
14 - The Family Stone (2005)
15 - Failure to Launch (2006)
16 - Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)
17 - Smart People (2008)
18 - Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
19 - Sex and the City 2 (2010)
20 - I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
21 - New Year's Eve (2011)
22 - All Roads Lead to Rome (2015)
23 - Blue Night (2018)
24 - And Just Like That season 1 (2021/22)- Actress
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- Director
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an American-born artist (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. Her parents are both of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Natalie's family left Israel for Washington, D.C., when she was still very young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York, where she still lives to this day. She graduated with honors, and her academic achievements allowed her to attend Harvard University. She was discovered by an agent in a pizza parlor at the age of 11. She was pushed towards a career in modeling but she decided that she would rather pursue a career in acting. She was featured in many live performances, but she made her powerful film debut in the movie Léon: The Professional (1994) (aka "Léon"). Following this role Natalie won roles in such films as Heat (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996).
It was not until 1999 that Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated US$431 million-grossing prequel Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). She then she starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas, Anywhere But Here (1999) and Where the Heart Is (2000), followed by Closer (2004), for which she received an Oscar nomination. She reprised her role as Padme Amidala in the last two episodes of the Star Wars prequel trilogy: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). She received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Black Swan (2010).
She received a second nomination for Best Actress, for playing Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie (2016).1 - Léon (1994)
2 - Heat (1995)
3 - Mars Attacks! (1996)
4 - Beautiful Girls (1996)
5 - Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
6 - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
7 - Anywhere But Here (1999)
8 - Where the Heart Is (2000)
9 - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
10 - Cold Mountain (2003)
11 - Closer (2004)
12 - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
13 - V for Vendetta (2005)
14 - Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (2009)
15 - Black Swan (2010)
16 - Thor (2011) MCU 04
17 - No Strings Attached (2011)
18 - Thor: The Dark World (2013) MCU 08
19 - Jane Got a Gun (2015)
20 - Jackie (2016)
21 - Annihilation (2018)
22 - Avengers: Endgame (2019) MCU 22
23 - Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) MCU 29- Actor
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Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A Beautiful Mind (2001), the kindly and clever mystery writer in Knives Out (2019), and as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009). It was this last role that finally brought him recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, when he was nominated as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, one of three Academy Award nominations he received in the 2010s, along with All the Money in the World (2017) (as J. Paul Getty) and Beginners (2010); he won for the latter role. He will also likely always be remembered as Captain Von Trapp in the atomic bomb-strength blockbuster The Sound of Music (1965), a film he publicly despised until softening his stance in his autobiography "In Spite of Me" (2008).
Christopher Plummer was born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario. He was the only child of Isabella Mary (Abbott), a secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and John Orme Plummer, who sold securities and stocks. Christopher was a great-grandson of John Abbott, who was Canada's third Prime Minister (from 1891 to 1892), and a great-great-great-grandson of Presbyterian clergyman John Bethune. He had Scottish, English, Anglo-Irish, and Cornish ancestry. Plummer was raised in Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal, at his maternal grandparents' home.
Aside from the youngest member of the Barrymore siblings (which counted Oscar-winners Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in their number), Plummer was the premier Shakespearean actor to come out of North America in the 20th century. He was particularly memorable as Hamlet, Iago and Lear, though his Macbeth opposite Glenda Jackson was -- and this was no surprise to him due to the famous curse attached to the "Scottish Play" -- a failure.
Like another great stage actor, Richard Burton, early in his career Plummer failed to connect with the screen in a way that would make him a star. Dynamic on stage, he didn't succeed as a younger leading man in films. Perhaps if he had been born earlier, and acted in the studio system of Hollywood's golden age, he could have been carefully groomed for stardom. As it was, he shared the English stage actors' disdain -- and he was equally at home in London as he was on the boards of Broadway or on-stage in his native Canada -- for the movies, which did not help him in that medium, as he has confessed. As he aged, Plummer excelled at character roles. He was always a good villain, this man who garnered kudos playing Lucifer on Broadway in Archibald Macleish's Pulitzer Prize-winning "J.B.".
Plummer won two Emmy Awards out of seven nominations stretching 46 years from 1959 and 2011, and one Genie Award in six nominations from 1980 to 2009. For his stage work, Plummer has racked up two Tony Awards on six nominations, the first in 1974 as Best Actor (Musical) for the title role in "Cyrano" and the second in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), in "Barrymore". Surprisingly, he did not win (though he was nominated) for his masterful 2004 performance of "King Lear", which he originated at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and brought down to Broadway for a sold-out run. His other Tony nominations show the wide range of his talent, from a 1959 nod for the Elia Kazan-directed production of Macleish's "J.B." to recognition in 1994 for Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", with a 1982 Best Actor (Play) nomination for his "Iago" in William Shakespeare's "Othello".
Until the 2009 Academy Awards were announced, it could be said about Plummer that he was the finest actor of the post-World War II period to fail to get an Academy Award. In that, he was following in the footsteps of the late great John Barrymore, whom Plummer so memorably portrayed on Broadway in a one-man show that brought him his second Tony Award. In 2010, Plummer finally got an Oscar nod for his portrayal of another legend, Lev Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009). Two years later, the first paragraph of his obituary was written when the 82-year-old Plummer became the oldest person in Academy history to win an Oscar. He won for playing a senior citizen who comes out as gay after the death of his wife in the movie Beginners (2010). As he clutched his statuette, the debonaire thespian addressed it thus: "You're only two years older than me darling, where have you been all of my life?"
Plummer then told the audience that at birth, "I was already rehearsing my Academy acceptance speech, but it was so long ago mercifully for you I've forgotten it." The Academy Award was a long time in coming and richly deserved.
Plummer gave many other fine portrayals on film, particularly as he grew older and settled down into a comfortable marriage with his third wife Elaine. He continued to be an in-demand character actor in prestigious motion pictures. If he were English rather than Canadian, he would have been knighted. (In 1968, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor and one which required the approval of the sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II.) If he lived in the company town of Los Angeles rather than in Connecticut, he likely would have several more Oscar nominations before winning his first for "The Last Station".
As it is, as attested to in his witty and well-written autobiography, Plummer was amply rewarded in life. In 1970, Plummer - then a self-confessed 43-year-old "bottle baby" - married his third wife Elaine Taylor, a dancer, who helped wean him off his dependency on alcohol. They lived happily with their dogs on a 30-acre estate in Weston, Connecticut. He thanked her from the stage during the 2012 Oscar telecast, quipping that she "deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day of my life." Although he spent the majority of his time in the United States, he remained a Canadian citizen. He died in his Weston, Connecticut home on February 5, 2021 at age 91.
His daughter, with actress Tammy Grimes, is actress Amanda Plummer.1 - The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
2 - The Sound of Music (1965)
3 - Triple Cross (1966)
4 - The Night of the Generals (1967)
5 - Battle of Britain (1969)
6 - The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
7 - Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
8 - Somewhere in Time (1980)
9 - The Thorn Birds (1983)
10 - The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
11 - Dreamscape (1984)
12 - Secrets (1992)
13 - Wolf (1994)
14 - Twelve Monkeys (1995)
15 - The Insider (1999)
16 - Dracula 2000 (2000)
17 - Nuremberg (2000)
18 - National Treasure (2004)
19 - The Lake House (2006)
20 - Inside Man (2006)
21 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
22 - Danny Collins (2015)
23 - Knives Out (2019)- Actor
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Matthew Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to Suzanne Marie (Langford), a Canadian journalist, and John Bennett Perry, an American actor. His ancestry includes English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, and French-Canadian.
Perry was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where he became a top-ranked junior tennis player in Canada. However, after moving to Los Angeles at the age of 15 to live with his father, he became more interested in acting. In addition to performing in several high school stage productions, he remained an avid tennis player. Perry ranked 17th nationally in the junior singles category and third in the doubles category. Upon graduating from high school, Perry intended to enroll at the University of Southern California. However, when he was offered a leading role on the television series, Boys Will Be Boys (1987), he seized the opportunity to begin his acting career.
Perry appeared in the hit comedy film The Whole Nine Yards (2000), as the neighbor of a hit man, played by Bruce Willis. His other feature film credits included Fools Rush In (1997), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), She's Out of Control (1989) and Parallel Lives (1994). He also co-starred with Chris Farley in the buddy comedy Almost Heroes (1998) and in the romantic comedy, Three to Tango (1999), opposite Neve Campbell. Perry resided in Los Angeles. He enjoyed playing ice hockey and softball in his spare time.1 - Highway to Heaven season 5: eps. 2 & 3 (1988)
2 - Beverly Hills, 90210 S1E19 (1991)
3 - Friends season 1 (1994/95)
4 - Friends season 2 (1995/96)
5 - Friends season 3 (1996/97)
6 - Friends season 4 (1997/98)
7 - Friends season 5 (1998/99)
8 - Three to Tango (1999)
9 - Friends season 6 (1999/00)
10 - The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
11 - Friends season 7 (2000/01)
12 - Friends season 8 (2001/02)
13 - Ally McBeal season 5: eps. 16 & 17 (2002)
14 - Friends season 9 (2002/03)
15 - The West Wing season 4: eps. 20 & 21 (2003)
16 - The West Wing S5E7 (2003)
17 - Friends season 10 (2003/04)
18 - The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
19 - 17 Again (2009)
20 - The Good Wife, season 3 (2012)
21 - The Good Wife, season 4 (2012/13)- Actress
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Ellen Kathleen Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts, to Kathleen B. (O'Keefe) and Joseph E. Pompeo, a salesman. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and some English, ancestry.
Pompeo made her major studio screen debut in Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile (2002), starring alongside Susan Sarandon, Dustin Hoffman, and Jake Gyllenhaal. She received outstanding reviews for her portrayal of an outspoken young woman carrying a silent burden that's breaking her heart.
Pompeo starred opposite Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell in the wildly successful Old School (2003) and, before that, in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002), opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.
Pompeo has starred in several independent features, including In the Weeds (2000), Coming Soon (1999), and Life of the Party (2005). Since 2005, she has played Dr. Meredith Grey on the television series Grey's Anatomy (2005).1 - Catch Me, If You Can (2002)
2 - Daredevil (2003)
3 - Friends S10E11 The One Where Stripper Cries (2004)
4 - Grey's Anatomy season 1 (2005)
5 - Grey's Anatomy season 2 (2005/06)
6 - Grey's Anatomy season 3 (2006/07)
7 - Grey's Anatomy season 4 (2007/08)
8 - Grey's Anatomy season 5 (2008/09)
9 - Grey's Anatomy season 6 (2009/10)
10 - Grey's Anatomy season 7 (2010/11)
11 - Grey's Anatomy season 8 (2011/12)
12 - Grey's Anatomy Season 9 (2012/13)
13 - Grey's Anatomy season 10 (2013/14)
14 - Grey's Anatomy season 11 (2014/15)
15 - Grey's Anatomy season 12 (2015/16)
16 - Grey's Anatomy season 13 (2016/17)
17 - Grey's Anatomy season 14 (2017/18)
18 - Grey's Anatomy season 15 (2018/19)
19 - Grey's Anatomy season 16 (2019/20)
20 - Grey's Anatomy season 17 (2020/21)
21 - Grey's Anatomy season 18 (2021/22)- Actress
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- Additional Crew
Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker was born on August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the youngest of four children of Judge John Morgan Parker, and the former Caroline Louise Morell. She is of mostly Swedish, English, and Scottish descent. Her father's occupation took the family both around the country and abroad while growing up.
Parker showed potential in her teens and majored in acting in her college years, graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Beginning her acting career with a part on the daytime soap Ryan's Hope (1975), Mary decided to test the waters in New York, and after work on the off-Broadway stage in the late 1980s, made her Broadway debut with "Prelude to a Kiss" in 1990, where she won the Theatre World Award, the Clarence Derwent Award and a Tony nomination.
Films and TV quickly followed and she quickly gained attention. She provided both poignant and amusing as the token femme friend to a group of gay men in the AIDS drama Longtime Companion (1989), but really caught fire with her feisty, standout performance in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), holding her own against such female powerhouses as Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates and Mary Stuart Masterson. Dubbed by some as the "long-suffering girl next door," she played such noble offbeat miserables and cast-asides in Grand Canyon (1991), Naked in New York (1993), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), The Client (1994) Boys on the Side (1995), in which she was the AIDS victim this time, The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Maker (1997), Let the Devil Wear Black (1999), Red Dragon (2002) and Pipe Dream (2001).
Preferring quality over quantity, she perfected her craft with offbeat roles in independent features and did not abandon her theater roots. She copped a slew of acting prizes for her stage work in "How I Learned to Drive" (1996) and, most notably, "Proof" in 2000, wherein she won nearly every award there is to attain, including the prestigious Tony. Her marquee name still does not command what it should, but a picture or production with Mary-Louise Parker in it usually guarantees a strong critical reception. Unmarried, she did enter into a longtime companionship with actor Billy Crudup after the twosome appeared opposite each other in the 1996 play, "Bus Stop". They went their separate ways in 2003, amid major controversy (she was pregnant at the time).
Mary Louise continues to divide her time equally and skillfully on TV, film and the stage. The powerful TV miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner heralded award-winning Broadway play Angels in America (2003), directed by Mike Nichols, earned the actress supporting performance Golden Globe and Emmy awards. She also earned a Tony nomination for the Broadway show, "Reckless", a year later but truly turned heads and wowed audiences the year after that in the highly acclaimed 7-season Showtime series Weeds (2005), earning another Golden Globe and several Emmy nominations for her amazing performance as Nancy Botwin, a relatively naïve suburban housewife and mother who courts serious trouble with the law and drug cartels when she turns into a neighborhood drug dealer for sustenance after her husband dies suddenly.
Into the millennium, Mary has continued with compelling work in such films as RED 2 (2013), R.I.P.D. (2013), Jamesy Boy (2014), Behaving Badly (2014), Chronically Metropolitan (2016), Golden Exits (2017) and Red Sparrow (2018). TV roles have included recurring roles on The Blacklist (2013) and the sci-fi thriller Mr. Mercedes (2017).
Her first child is eighteen-year-old William Atticus Parker -- a director, writer and actor. Adopting a second child from Ethiopia, Mary Louise was acknowledged in 2013 for her significant contributions to Hope North, an organization that works in the educating and healing of young victims caught in Uganda's civil war. Her memoir-in-letters, Dear Mr. You, came out in 2015.1 - The Client (1994)
2 - The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
3 - The West Wing season 3 (2001/02)
4 - Red Dragon (2002)
5 - The West Wing season 4 (2002/03)
6 - The West Wing season 5: eps. 2 to 5 (2003)
7 - The West Wing S6E15 Freedonia (2005)
8 - Weeds season 1 (2005)
9 - The West Wing season 7: eps. 18 & 20 (2006)
10 - Weeds season 2 (2006)
11 - Weeds season 3 (2007)
12 - Weeds season 4 (2008)
13 - Weeds season 5 (2009)
14 - Weeds season 6 (2010)
15 - RED (2010)
16 - Weeds season 7 (2011)
17 - Weeds season 8 (2012)
18 - R.I.P.D. (2013)
19 - RED 2 (2013)
20 - Red Sparrow (2018)- Actress
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Pauley Perrette is known to millions around the world as Abby Sciuto, the brilliant but offbeat forensic scientist on CBS's NCIS (2003). Her additional credits include appearances on such shows as Almost Famous (2000), The Ring (2002), 24 (2001), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Murder One (1995), The Drew Carey Show (1995), Jesse (1998), Time of Your Life (1999), Philly (2001), Special Unit 2 (2001), Haunted (2002) and many independent films, commercials, and music videos.
Born in New Orleans, Pauley was raised in Alabama, Georgia, and all over the South. She was an undergrad honor student in sociology, psychology, and criminal science. She began her master's degree in criminal science at Georgia State University before moving to New York City. She worked as a bartender while pursuing an acting career.
In addition to being a talented actress, Pauley is also a director, producer, published writer, poet, photographer, spoken-word artist, and singer/songwriter. A passionate and dedicated advocate for civil rights, she is directing and producing a documentary about U.S. civil rights attorney and author Mark Lane. An ardent social and civil activist, Pauley is involved in many charitable organizations that work on behalf of animal rescue, civil rights, and LGBT rights. She is on the board of Project Angel Food and supports Habitat for Humanity, NoH8, PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), EQCA (Equality California), AIDS Walk LA, the Humane Society, AIDS Task Force, NOH8 Campaign, Los Angeles Zoo, Hope Gardens, Union Rescue Mission, DonorsChoose.org, APLA (AIDS Project Los Angeles), the Amanda Foundation, the American Red Cross, Out of the Closet, Top Cops, 5p21 (AIDS clinic), Strike Out AIDS, Petfinder.com, Hollywood Homeless Lunch, Campaign for Care, and Save the Children. Pauley is also an active congregant of the social and civilly active Hollywood United Methodist Church.
Her dedication to independent film has resulted in her winning, among other accolades, Best Actress in the Beverly Hills Films Festival 2010 for To Comfort You (2009). Being placed on several IT lists, including those of Entertainment Weekly and LA Weekly, she also was singled out as the only woman in the top 10 of the Q rankings, and tied with Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman at #1 as the most favorable celebrities. In the E-Poll survey, she ranked #4 most liked celebrity.
Pauley was recently honored by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul as Community Advocate of the Year, by the Union Rescue Mission with the Heart for Service Award, by the Desert AIDS Project as Next Generation Advocate, and by the Union Rescue Mission for her social media efforts that saved Hope Gardens (a homeless shelter for women and children). She is finishing recording her new album with her band, Stop Making Friends, performing songs that she wrote and sings. She is also the former lead singer of the all-girl rock band Lo-Ball. She recently collaborated with new artist B. Taylor on his single, "Fire in Your Eyes," and soon will be heard on the Run-D.M.C. single "Attention Please."
Pauley has been a frequent entertaining guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005), Late Show with David Letterman (1993), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009), and many other entertainment and talk shows.1 - The Ring (2002)
2 - 24 season 1: eps. 16 & 17 (2002)
3 - JAG season 8: eps. 20 & 21 (2003)
4 - NCIS season 1 (2003/04)
5 - NCIS season 2 (2004/05)
6 - NCIS season 3 (2005/06)
7 - NCIS season 4 (2006/07)
8 - NCIS season 5 (2007/08)
9 - NCIS season 6 (2008/09)
10 - NCIS season 7 (2009/10)
11 - NCIS season 8 (2010/11)
12 - NCIS season 9 (2011/12)
13 - NCIS season 10 (2012/13)
14 - NCIS season 11 (2013/14)
15 - NCIS season 12 (2014/15)
16 - NCIS season 13 (2015/16)
17 - NCIS: New Orleans S2E12 Sister City: Part II (2016)
18 - NCIS season 14 (2016/17)
19 - NCIS season 15 (2017/18)- Actor
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Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child, he was sent to live with his grandmother. He never felt he had a stable childhood. His fondest memories are of his grandmother taking him to the movies every week and of his dog, which followed him everywhere. He studied pre-med at UC-Berkeley and, while there, got bitten by the acting bug and decided to change the focus of his studies. He enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and debuted on Broadway after graduation. His debut was in Emlyn Williams' play "The Morning Star" (1942). By 1943, he was in Hollywood, where he debuted in the RKO film Days of Glory (1944).
Stardom came with his next film, The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Peck's screen presence displayed the qualities for which he became well known. He was tall, rugged and heroic, with a basic decency that transcended his roles. He appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) as an amnesia victim accused of murder. In The Yearling (1946), he was again nominated for an Academy Award and won the Golden Globe. He was especially effective in westerns and appeared in such varied fare as David O. Selznick's critically blasted Duel in the Sun (1946), the somewhat better received Yellow Sky (1948) and the acclaimed The Gunfighter (1950). He was nominated again for the Academy Award for his roles in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), which dealt with anti-Semitism, and Twelve O'Clock High (1949), a story of high-level stress in an Air Force bomber unit in World War II.
With a string of hits to his credit, Peck made the decision to only work in films that interested him. He continued to appear as the heroic, larger-than-life figures in such films as Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and Moby Dick (1956). He worked with Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, Roman Holiday (1953). Peck finally won the Oscar, after four nominations, for his performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). In the early 1960s, he appeared in two darker films than he usually made, Cape Fear (1962) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), which dealt with the way people live. He also gave a powerful performance as Captain Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone (1961), one of the biggest box-office hits of that year.
In the early 1970s, he produced two films, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972) and The Dove (1974), when his film career stalled. He made a comeback playing, somewhat woodenly, Robert Thorn in the horror film The Omen (1976). After that, he returned to the bigger-than-life roles he was best known for, such as MacArthur (1977) and the monstrous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele in the huge hit The Boys from Brazil (1978). In the 1980s, he moved into television with the miniseries The Blue and the Gray (1982) and The Scarlet and the Black (1983). In 1991, he appeared in the remake of his 1962 film, playing a different role, in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). He was also cast as the progressive-thinking owner of a wire and cable business in Other People's Money (1991).
In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was also been awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Always politically progressive, he was active in such causes as anti-war protests, workers' rights and civil rights. In 2003, his Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute. Gregory Peck died at age 87 on June 12, 2003 in Los Angeles, California.1 - Spellbound (1945)
2 - The Paradine Case (1947)
3 - Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
4 - David and Bathsheba (1951)
5 - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
6 - Roman Holiday (1953)
7 - Moby Dick (1956)
8 - The Bravados (1958)
9 - The Big Counyty (1958)
10 - Pork Chop Hill (1959)
11 - The Guns of Navarone (1961)
12 - Cape Fear (1962)
13 - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
14 - How the West Was Won (1962)
15 - Mackenna's Gold (1969)
16 - The Boys from Brazil (1978)
17 - The Sea Wolves (1980)
18 - The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
19 - Cape Fear (1991)- Actor
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Luke Perry was an American actor, primarily remembered as a teen idol throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. Perry was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1966. Mansfield was known at the time as a center for the home appliances and stove manufacturing industries. The city's largest employer used to be the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Perry's parents were the steelworker Coy Luther Perry Jr. (1944-1980) and his wife Ann. Perry's parents divorced in 1972, when he was 6-years-old. Ann gained custody over her children, and later married construction worker Steve Bennett. Luke was mostly raised by his mother and stepfather, and did not have a close relationship with his biological father. Coy Perry suffered a heart attack in 1980 and died, when Luke was 14-years-old. Luke attended his funeral.
Perry was mostly raised in the village of Fredericktown, Ohio, and attended the Fredericktown High School. In his high school years, Perry served in the role of the school mascot, the "Freddie Bird".
In 1984, the 18-year-old Perry moved to Los Angeles, with the intention of becoming a professional actor. For several years, Perry kept auditioning for various roles without ever being hired. He supported himself financially by working at odd jobs, and serving as an extra for music videos. His most notable role in this period was in the 1986 music video for the song "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" (1985) by the heavy metal band "Twisted Sister".
Perry's first successful audition landed him the role of a recurring character in the soap opera Loving (1983) (1983-1995). From 1987 to 1988, he played the character of Ned Bates. In Perry's own words: "Ned was a dirt-poor mechanic from Tennessee who always got taken advantage of".
Perry next received a recurring role in another soap opera, Another World (1964) (1964-1999). From 1988 to 1989, he played the character of Kenny, the manager of aspiring model and actress Josie Watt (played by Alexandra Wilson).
In 1990, Perry landed the most significant role of his career, depicting the character of Dylan McKay in the teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) (1990-2000). He played the character for a total of 199 episodes. Dylan was the teenage rebel son of business tycoon Jack McKay and hippie ex-wife Iris McKay. He started the series as a loner, but he offered help to nerdy schoolmate Scott Scanlon (played by Douglas Emerson) against the local bullies. This act of bravery gained him new friends and the romantic attention of Brenda Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty).
Perry's success in his new role gained him a huge following among teenage girls, and guaranteed that he would receive more job offers. His first starring role in a film was the drama Terminal Bliss (1990) (1992), where he played the self-destructive rich kid John Hunter. The film was a box-office flop.
Perry had a more memorable role in the horror comedy film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), as the character Oliver Pike. Pike was a hard-drinking slacker youth in Los Angeles, and had a hostile relationship with high school girl Buffy Summers (played by Kristy Swanson). After Pike's best friend gets turned into a vampire, Pike assists Buffy in her battles with the vampire lord Lothos (played by Rutger Hauer) and his subordinate vampires. Pike is Buffy's sidekick and main love interest in the film, and has appeared in various adaptations, though not in the spin-off television series.
Perry had his first voice acting role in the episode, Krusty Gets Kancelled (1993) of the animated sitcom The Simpsons (1989). He played a parody version of himself as a sidekick of the character Krusty the Clown in a show-within-the-show. Perry had more voice acting roles in other animated television series of this era. He played the Detroit-based crime lord Napoleon Brie in Biker Mice from Mars (1993) (1993-1996), the master ninja Sub-Zero in Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (1995) (1996), Bruce Banner's best friend and sidekick Rick Jones in The Incredible Hulk (1996) (1996-1997), and Nicky Little's boyfriend Stewart Waldinger in Pepper Ann (1997) (1997-2000).
In live-action films, Perry played the starring role of professional bull-rider Lane Frost (1963-1989) in the biographical drama 8 Seconds (1994). He played a version of himself in the Italian comedy film Vacanze di Natale '95 (1995) ("Christmas Vacation '95", 1995), where he is the love interest of infatuated teenager Marta Colombo (played by Cristiana Capotondi). Perry played the police officer and bank robber Chris Anderson in the crime drama Normal Life (1996), while his wife and partner-in-crime Pam Anderson was played by Ashley Judd. He played the suicidal character Johnny in the comedy-drama American Strays (1996), which features the character hiring a professional hit-man to provide him with an assisted suicide.
In 1997, Perry played a small role in the science fiction film The Fifth Element (1997). In a scene set in 1914, Perry plays the assistant archaeologist Billy Masterson. Masterson sees his mentor being knocked out by Mondoshawan aliens, and reacts by shooting one of the aliens. Masterson's fate is left uncertain in the film, though the novelization features him as the victim of a poisoning plot.
In the late 1990s, Perry appeared frequently in television films and various direct-to-video films. He had guest roles in several television series, but mostly playing one-shot characters. Following the end of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) in 2000, his first major role was the recurring character Jeremiah Cloutier in the crime-drama Oz (1997) (1997-2003). Introduced in 2001 episodes of the series, Jeremiah was an Evangelical preacher who was imprisoned for embezzling funds from his church. He used his charisma and preaching skills to convert fellow prisoners to Evangelical Christianity, He was eventually assassinated by his own convert Timmy Kirk (Sean Dugan) and several of Kirk's friends, after Jeremiah denounced Kirk using Christianity as an excuse to murder people.
Perry next gained a starring role in the post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah (2002) (2002-2004). The series is set c. 2021, 15 years after a plague killed nearly everyone over the age of thirteen. Most of the adult characters of the show were children at that time, and survived the event. Now they are troubled adults, trying to survive in a harsh world. Perry's character Jeremiah is a wanderer who finds himself recruited into a Colorado-based secretive organization. He fights a war against a West Virginia-based organization which seeks to either conquer or wipe out all remaining outposts of humanity. The series lasted two seasons. A third season was planned, but plans for it were aborted due to disagreements between the production companies co-financing the series.
Perry returned to playing mostly guest star roles in television. In 2006, he was cast as one of the main characters in the short-lived drama series Windfall (2006). Only 13 episodes were produced, as the series failed to find an audience and one of the show's co-creators had left before the season's completion.
In 2007, Perry played businessman Linc Stark in the surf-themed series John from Cincinnati (2007). Despite relatively high ratings, the series only lasted for one season.
In the late 2000s, Perry played guest roles in police procedural a series: the rapist Noah Sibert in Trials (2008) and the cult leader Benjamin Cyrus in Minimal Loss (2008).
For much of the 2010s, Perry continued mostly appearing in guest roles and relatively obscure films. In 2015, a colonoscopy test revealed pre-cancerous growths in Perry's body, that could have developed into colorectal cancer. Perry received medical treatment, and became a spokesperson for campaigns requiring early testing for cancer.
In 2017, Perry returned to prominence in a live-action adaptation of a comic book series, Riverdale (2017) (2017-2019). It was an adaptation of Archie Comics' characters, but in a mystery series instead of their traditional comedy setting. Perry played Frederick "Fred" Andrews, Archie Andrews's father, depicted here as the owner of a successful construction company. Fred is depicted as a single father, as his wife Mary Andrews abandoned him and moved to Chicago. The series also depicts Fred as the ex-boyfriend of Hermione Gomez-Lodge (Veronica Lodge's mother).
On February 27, 2019, Perry suffered a massive ischemic stroke within his home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. He was hospitalized, but suffered a second stroke days later. He died on March 4, 2019, having never recovered from the two strokes. He was only 52 years old. His body was buried near his home in Vanleer, Tennessee, where he had bought a farm and the associated house in 1995, and spent time living there when not working on film or television projects.
Perry's will reportedly left his son Jack Perry (b. 1997) and daughter Sophie Perry (b. 2000) as the only heirs to his estate. The press noted that the will excludes Perry's mother, his stepfather, his siblings, his ex-wife, and his last fiancée from having inheritance claims, and there was some speculation on Perry's motivation for this decision. His net worth was estimated at over $10 million.1 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 1 (1990/91)
2 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 2 (1991/92)
3 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
4 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 3 (1992/93)
5 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 4 (1993/94)
6 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 5 (1994/95)
7 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 6 (1995/96)
8 - The Fifth Element (1997)
9 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 9 (1998/99)
10 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 10 (1999/00)
11 - Criminal Minds S4E3 Minimal Loss (2008)
12 - Body of Proof season 2: eps. 18 & 18 (2012)
13 - Body of Proof season 3: eps. 7, 10 & 11 (2013)
14 - K-9 Adventures: A Christmas Tale (2013)
15 - A Fine Step (2014)
16 - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Jason Priestley was born on 28 August 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), Call Me Fitz (2010) and Cas & Dylan (2013). He has been married to Naomi Lowde-Priestley since 14 May 2005. They have two children. He was previously married to Ashlee Petersen.1 - Airwolf S1E6 A Piece of Cake (1987)
2 - 21 Jump Street S1E12 Mean Streets and Pastel Houses (1987)
3 - Quantum Leap S1E8 Camikazi Kid (1989)
4 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 1 (1990/91)
5 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 2 (1991/92)
6 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 3 (1992/93)
7 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 4 (1993/94)
8 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 5 (1994/95)
9 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 6 (1995/96)
10 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 7 (1996/97)
11 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 8 (1997/98)
12 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 9 (1998)
13 - Beverly Hills, 90210 S10E27 (2000)
14 - Tru Calling season 1 (2004)
15 - Tru Calling season 2 (2005)
16 - Medium S3E20-21-22 (2007)- Actress
- Music Department
- Producer
Hayden Lesley Panettiere was born on August 21, 1989 in Palisades, New York, to actress Lesley Vogel and fire department captain Skip Panettiere. Her younger brother was actor Jansen Panettiere (1994-2023). Her parents are both of half Italian descent, along with German and English. Her mother got her started in the business by doing commercials when she was just 11 months old. Then, at only 4 1/2, she was cast on the soap opera One Life to Live (1968), where she remained until 1997. Since then, she has gone on to appear in many feature films and TV movies. But she is probably best known in the United States for her role as "Claire" on the hit TV show, Heroes (2006).
As for movies, Hayden starred in Remember the Titans (2000) with Denzel Washington and Joe Somebody (2001) with Tim Allen. When Hayden isn't working, she enjoys singing, dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics, taking piano lessons, and swimming.
She has been involved with many animated movies, beginning with A Bug's Life (1998) as "Dot", later to follow was Dinosaur (2000), the video game Kingdom Hearts (2002), and The Mark of Kri (2002). Her next movie is Racing Stripes (2005), a partly animated film, but Hayden will star in the human role; other cast members include the voices of Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Joshua Jackson and Mandy Moore.
In 2003, she joined the likes of Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson and Clancy Brown in Jane Anderson's Normal (2003), a film about a Midwestern husband and father who announces his plans to have a sex-change operation. In July of the same year, Hayden appeared in a John Guare play, "Landscape of the Body", for the Williamstown theater festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.1 - The Object of My Affection (1998)
2 - Message in a Bottle (1999)
3 - Ally McBeal season 5 (2002)
4 - Racing Stripes (2005)
5 - Ice Princess (2005)
6 - Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
7 - Heroes season 1 (2007)
8 - Shanghai Kiss (2007)
9 - Heroes season 2 (2007)
10 - Heroes season 3 (2008/09)
11 - I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
12 - Heroes season 4 (2009/10)
13 - Scream 4 (2011)
14 - Heroes Reborn S1E13 Project Reborn (2016)
15 - Scream 6 (2023)- Actress
- Producer
Elizabeth Ann Perkins was born on November 18, 1960, in the borough of Queens, New York, and was raised in Vermont. Her mother, Jo Williams, was a concert pianist and drug treatment counselor, and her father, James Perkins, was a businessman, farmer, and writer. She is of Greek and English descent. Perkins studied acting at Chicago's Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University for three years, then launched her professional career with a co-starring gig in the touring company of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986). Seasoned, she returned to New York in the spring of 1984 to make her Broadway debut as a replacement in the Simon play. As a stage actress, she has trod the boards with Playwrights Horizon, the Ensemble Studio, The New York Shakespeare Festival, and, back in Chicago, with the Steppenwolf Theater. Elizabeth Perkins was listed as one of the 12 "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, and has since landed numerous film roles. Perkins made her film debut in 1986 in Edward Zwick's About Last Night... with Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and Jim Belushi, and had a career breakthrough co-starring with Tom Hanks in Big. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Barry Levinson's Avalon,[9] and was a standout opposite William Hurt in The Doctor (1991), receiving critical acclaim for her performance as a terminal cancer patient.[5] .[10] She subsequently starred in the Alan Rudolph film Love at Large and Sweethearts Dance with Susan Sarandon and Jeff Daniels. Since, she has appeared in Miracle on 34th Street with Sir Richard Attenborough, 28 Days opposite Sandra Bullock, the suspense thriller, The Ring Two, opposite Naomi Watts, Indian Summer with Diane Lane and Bill Paxton, Moonlight and Valentino with Gwyneth Paltrow, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner and Jon Bon Jovi, the Antonio Banderas directed Crazy in Alabama opposite Melanie Griffith, Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood with Martin Short, Wilma Flintstone opposite John Goodman in the 1994 live-action comedy The Flintstones, The Thing About My Folks with Paul Reiser and Peter Falk, He Said, She Said with Kevin Bacon and Sharon Stone and Must Love Dogs with John Cusack, Diane Lane, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney and Stockard Channing. From 2005 to 2009, Perkins played Celia Hodes, an alcoholic and image-obsessed parent-teacher association (PTA) mother, alongside Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Nealon and Justin Kirk on the Showtime series Weeds. Perkins received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Miniseries or Made for TV Motion Picture (in 2006 and 2007).[5] and was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Weeds.[5] At a screening of Weeds at the Museum of TV and Radio on October 25, 2006, Perkins said that she considers Celia Hodes her favorite role in her career.[5] On May 6, 2010, she announced that the fifth season of Weeds was her last despite the cliffhanger her character had in the season finale.[11] Perkins appeared in the television projects My Sisters Keeper with Kathy Bates, If These Walls Could Talk with Vanessa Redgrave and Paul Giamatti and Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women directed by Peter Bogdonavich. Perkins starred in the ABC comedy series How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life).[12] with Brad Garrett, played Birdie in the Netflix original series GLOW with Alison Brie, starred as Marilyn Lovell in HBO's epic From The Earth to the Moon, played opposite Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson in HBO's Sharp Objects directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, starred with Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul and Lizzie Caplan in AppleTV's Truth Be Told, was featured on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and is currently starring in Season 2 of the Fox comedy The Moodys opposite Denis Leary and Jay Baruchel. She plays the role of Mandy Moores mother on the hit series This Is Us. (Perkins also had a role in the 2003 film Finding Nemo, voicing Coral, the wife of Marlin and mother of Nemo, and who was killed and eaten by the barracuda in the beginning of the film.)1 - Big (1988)
2 - Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
3 - I'm Losing You (1998)
4 - If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
5 - 28 Days (2000)
6 - Cats & Dogs (2001)
7 - Try Seventeen (2002)
8 - Weeds season 1 (2005)
9 - Weeds season 2 (2006)
10 - Weeds season 3 (2007)
11 - Weeds season 4 (2008)
12 - Weeds season 5 (2009)
13 - Hop (2011)
14 - Ghostbusters (2016)
15 - Sharp Objects (2018)- Emily Procter is a native of Raleigh, N.C. who attended East Carolina University. "I tried to get in the theatre department," she says, "but it was full." After graduation, however, she moved to Los Angeles and landed a number of small roles in films such as Jerry Maguire (1996). "Then I got the chance to audition for The West Wing (1999) and I got the part," she says.1 - Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
2 - Friends S2E2 The One with the Breast Milk (1995)
3 - Lois & Clark S3E14 Tempus, Anyone? (1996)
4 - Jerry Maguire (1996)
5 - Family Plan (1997)
6 - The West Wing season 2 (2000/01)
7 - The West Wing season 3 (2001:02)
8.1 - CSI: Miami S1E8 Slaughterhouse (2002)
8.2 - CSI: Miami S1E17 Simple Man (2003)
9.1 - CSI: Miami S2E3 Hard Time (2003)
9.2 - CSI: Miami S2E19 Deadline (2004)
9.3 - CSI: Miami S2E23 MIA/NYC Nonstop (2004)
10.1 - CSI: Miami S3E6 Hell Night (2004)
10.2 - CSI: Miami S3E23 Whacked (2005)
11 - CSI: Miami S4E7 Felony Flight (2005)
12 - Big Momma's House 2 (2006)
13 - The West Wing S7E18 Requiem (2006) - Actress
- Director
- Producer
Laura Helene Prepon was born on March 7, 1980, in Watchung, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Marjorie (Coll) and Michael Prepon. Her father died in 1993, when she was 13 years old. Laura is the youngest of five children--she has a brother named Brad and three sisters: Danielle, Jocelyn, and Stephanie. She attended Watchung Hills Regional High School. She studied at the Total Theater Lab in New York City, where she appeared in a number of theatrical productions.
Before acting became her profession, Laura was a model, working in Paris, Milan, and elsewhere in Europe. She began acting at the young age of 15 as well as dancing--ballet, jazz, and modern. She also played soccer and other sports. Laura loves vintage clothes. Her hobbies include cooking, traveling, horseback riding, playing piano, and dancing. Her favorite book is 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien. Laura resides in New York when not filming in Los Angeles.1 - That '70s Show season 1 (1998/99)
2 - That '70s Show season 2 (1999/00)
3 - That '70s Show season 3 (2000/01)
4 - That '70s Show season 4 (2001/02)
5 - Slackers (2002)
6 - That '70s Show season 5 (2002/03)
7 - That '70s Show season 6 (2003/04)
8 - That '70s Show season 7 (2004/05)
9 - That '70s Show season 8 (2005/06)
10 - Medium S6E15 How to Beat a Bad Guy (2010)
11 - Castle S3E11 Nikki Heat (2011)- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Anna Paquin is the first millennial to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting, and the first to win.
She was born on July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mary (Brophy), an English teacher from Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a Canadian phys-ed teacher. Anna moved to her mother's native country when she was four years old. Her first acting job ever was at age nine in the movie The Piano (1993), which was shot in New Zealand. At age 16, she relocated to Los Angeles where she completed her last two years of high school (graduating in 2000). She then moved to New York where she attended Columbia University for one year. Between 2001 and 2004, she worked almost exclusively on stage in both New York and London. In 2007, Anna was cast in HBO's True Blood (2008), which concluded shooting its seventh and final season in 2014.1 - The Piano (1993)
2 - She's All That (1999)
3 - A Walk on the Moon (1999)
4 - Finding Forrester (2000)
5 - X-Men (2000)
6 - X2 (2003)
7 - X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
8 - The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
9 - Scream 4 (2011)
10 - X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Amanda Peet was born and raised in New York City. She is the daughter of Penny (Levy), a social worker, and Charles Peet, a lawyer, and has an older sister. Her father was of mostly English and German ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish family (from Germany, Russia, and Hungary). Peet's great-grandfathers were politician Samuel Levy and showbiz impresario S.L. Rothafel.
Peet made an unconventional stage debut at the age of three, when she jumped onto the stage during a play. Yet, despite this early start, she later studied acting more as a hobby than anything else. She studied history at Columbia University, where a drama professor convinced her to audition for acting teacher Uta Hagen, with whom she later went on to study for a four-year period. During this time, she participated in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing." She supported herself during the audition phase of her career by working as a waitress and with the residual checks she received from a Skittles candy commercial. Perseverance and hard work paid off, and, in 1995, she was cast in a guest-starring role on the hit series Law & Order (1990).
Her feature film debut came in 1995 with the movie Animal Room (1995). For a while afterward, Amanda continued to find steady work but also found herself appearing in a depressingly large number of indie films that were never picked up for distribution. She did, however, meet her boyfriend Brian Van Holt on the set of indie movie Whipped (2000). Her turn as the ditzy hit-woman with the heart of gold in the hit comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), opposite Bruce Willis, took her from supporting role status to leading lady. That same year she was voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by "People" Magazine.1 - One Fine Day (1996)
2 - She's the One (1996)
3 - The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
4 - High Crimes (2002)
5 - Identity (2003)
6 - Something's Gotta Give (2003)
7 - The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
8 - The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
9 - The Good Wife, season 4 (2012/13)- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Piper Perabo is a Golden Globe nominated film, stage and TV actor. Born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in New Jersey, she graduated summa cum Laude from Ohio University. In 2000 she was cast in a breakout role in Coyote Ugly. Since then she has been seen in such films as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow", with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me & You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime drama "10th & Wolf" with an ensemble cast that included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. She starred alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action film, "Looper.".
In television Perabo starred as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network's spy drama, "Covert Affairs." Following that she co-starred in ABC's 2016 legal drama "Notorious."And can next be seen on Netflix in "Turn Up Charlie" with Idris Elba.
She made her Broadway debut in Neil LaBute's controversial play "Reasons to be Pretty", which was nominated for the Tony for Best Play.
Outside of her work on screen and stage, Perabo is also an activist. She is a Voice for the International Rescue Committee to raise awareness about the world's refugee crisis and help those displaced by conflict, religious persecution and political oppression around the globe.
Piper lives in Los Angeles and New York City.1 - Coyote Ugly (2000)
2 - Lost and Delirious (2001)
3 - Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
4 - Perfect Opposites (2004)
5 - Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
6 - Imagine Me & You (2005)
7 - Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
8 - Looper (2012)
9 - Angel Has Fallen (2019)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lindsay Price was born on 6 December 1976 in Arcadia, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Lipstick Jungle (2008), Eastwick (2009) and Splitting Up Together (2018). She has been married to Curtis Stone since 8 June 2013. They have two children. She was previously married to Shawn Piller.1 - Airwolf S2E13 The American Dream (1985)
2 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 8 (1998)
3 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 9 (1998/99)
4 - Beverly Hills, 90210 season 10 (1999/00)
5 - NCIS S2E9 Forced Entry (2004)
6 - NCIS S3E9 Frame Up (2005)
7 - Lipstick Jungle season 1 (2008)
8 - Lipstick Jungle season 2 (2008/09)
9 - Castle S8E7 The Last Seduction (2015)- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Franka Potente was born on 22 July 1974 in the German city of Münster, to Hildegard, a medical assistant, and Dieter Potente, a teacher, and raised in the nearby town of Dülmen. After her graduation in 1994, she went to the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule, a drama school in Munich, but soon broke off to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. After a notable debut in Nach Fünf im Urwald (1995), the role of the heroine in Run Lola Run (1998), directed by her then longtime companion Tom Tykwer was her national breakthrough. After some other successful movies in Germany, she starred in several Hollywood productions, most prominently The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and lived one year in Los Angeles. After her return to Berlin, she continues working with German and international directors.1 - Lola rennt (1998)
2 - Anatomie (2000)
3 - Blow (2001)
4 - The Bourne Identity (2002)
5 - Try Seventeen (2002)
6 - The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
7 - Romulus, My Father (2007)
8 - Eichmann (2007)
9 - The Conjuring 2 (2016)