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Valerie Cruz
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Valerie Cruz (born July 18, 1976) is an American actress. Cruz was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey of Cuban ancestry. She attended Florida State University and received a BFA theatre degree. She has appeared in films such as Cellular and played Grace Santiago in Nip/Tuck. She played a main character in Nip/Tuck, but she left the show just after the first season.[1] She has made guest appearances in series such as Grey's Anatomy and Las Vegas. In 2007, she appeared as Connie Murphy, a tough Chicago police detective, in SciFi Channel's (now cancelled) adaptation of The Dresden Files. The show lasted for one season. She has also played Maria Nolan on the CW's Hidden Palms. In 2008, she appeared in season three of Dexter, playing Sylvia Prado, the wife of Assistant District Attorney Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smits). In 2009, she appeared in the horror film The Devil's Tomb and the HBO series True Blood, in which she played the part of Isabel. In 2010 she became part of the cast of the ABC drama Off the Map, which was canceled by ABC On May 13, 2011 . Description above from the Wikipedia article Valerie Cruz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ruth Langsford
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Ruth Wendy Langsford (born 17 March 1960) is a Singapore-born English television presenter. She has presented various television shows, including This Morning (1999–present) in which she is currently the longest serving presenter, Gift Wrapped (2014), How the Other Half Lives (2015–present), and Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit (2017–present). Since 1999, Langsford has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. In 2017, she took part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, in which she finished in ninth place.
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Katharine Cullen
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Katharine Cullen is an Australian actress, daughter of actors Max Cullen and Colleen Anne Fitzpatrick. Cullen played a feral child in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome directed by George Miller, Little Pam in A Girl's Own Story by Jane Campion, Frances in the internationally screened television series Hills End, and Alana, the title role in The Girl From Tomorrow and its sequel The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End, a popular sci-fi children’s television series that spawned books, newsletters, fanclubs and international awards,[8] including nominations for three (AFI) Australian Film Institute Awards. Katharine made her professional stage debut aged 24 at The Opera House for The Sydney Theatre Company in A Month in the Country as Vera, directed by Lindy Davies and later played Mrs Fainall, the daughter of Lady Wishfort played by Miriam Margolyes, in The Sydney Theatre Company production of The Way of the World directed by Gale Edwards. She starred in Humble Boy for the Ensemble Theatre and alongside her father, actor Max in the Ensemble Theatre production of I Ought to be in Pictures by Neil Simon, both plays directed by artistic director of the Ensemble Sandra Bates, one reviewer stating "Cullen's portrayal as the outspoken, heartbreakingly brave young girl is magnificent. Her ability to imbue her character with a sensitive mix of fragile vulnerability overlaid by outspoken confidence is remarkable". Cullen later worked with the Sydney Theatre Company performing Brecht and for Belvoir St Theatre as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2010, Cullen appeared in Chekhov’s The Seagull for the Siren Theatre Company. "A special mention must go to Katharine Cullen’s Masha, whose unrequited passion for Konstantin brings about some of the funniest and saddest scenes... Cullen’s vodka-soaked rant inspired well deserved spontaneous applause". In late 2010, for the Ensemble Theatre Cullen played Grace in Between Us, and also for The Ensemble played Kyra in David Hare's Skylight during July 2012.
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Haley Joel Osment
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Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing the title character’s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller film The Sixth Sense that earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films including Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Mimi Leder's Pay it Forward. He made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a revival of American Buffalo, co-starring with John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer.
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John Lounsbery
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John Lounsbery was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Colorado. He attended East Denver High School and the Art Institute of Denver. While attending the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, an instructor sent him to interview with Walt Disney. Lounsbery was hired by Disney on July 2, 1935, beginning as an assistant animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He went on to work on numerous other short features in the 1940s, while continuing to serve as part of the animating team on nearly all of Disney's most famous feature-length animated films. In the 1970s, he was promoted to director and directed Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! and co-directed The Rescuers.
John Lounsbery died on February 13, 1976, in Los Angeles, California, of heart failure during cardiac surgery, aged 64. At the time of his death, he was working on the The Rescuers and still directing at the Walt Disney Studios. He was named a Disney Legend in 1989.
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Jimmy Edwards
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James Keith O'Neill "Jimmy" Edwards, DFC (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O!
Edwards was born in Barnes, London, (then Surrey), the son of a professor of mathematics. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, at King's College School in Wimbledon and at St John's College, Cambridge.
He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.
In December 1958, Jimmy Edwards played the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Kenneth Williams, Tommy Steele, Yana and Betty Marsden Bobby Howell was the Musical Director. In April 1966, he played at the last night of Melbourne's Tivoli Theatre.
Edwards frequently worked with Eric Sykes, acting in short films that Sykes wrote: The Plank (1967), which also starred Tommy Cooper; alongside Arthur Lowe and Ronnie Barker in the remake of The Plank in 1979; and in Rhubarb (1969), which again featured Sykes. The films were not silent but had no dialogue other than grunts. He also appeared in the The Bed Sitting Room (1969) as Nigel, a man who lives in a left luggage compartment after being mistaken for a suitcase.
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Melissa Brasselle
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Melissa Brasselle was born on January 27, in Bronx, NY. Coming from a talented and well known family of actors, singers, writers and producers it was inevitable that she would follow in their footsteps. Her mother Arlene DeMarco, was the lead singer of the famous singing group, "The Five DeMarco Sisters", as well as being the bestselling author of "Triangle" and "Make Believe Children." Her father was actor Keefe Brasselle who starred in a number of films including Academy award winning film "A Place in the Sun." He was best known for his starring role in the "The Eddie Cantor Story." Melissa's parents both met each other on the set of MGM's "Skirts Ahoy" starring Ester Williams. He too was a bestselling author first writing the controversial "The Cannibals" followed by "The Barracudas."
She began modeling in her late teens, and in 1989 Playboy launched a nation wide search of over 50,000 girls for their 35th anniversary addition. A submitted photo of her taken on a Polaroid, placed her in the top five and landed her in the pages of playboy for their 35 anniversary addition.
Melissa gained the greatest notoriety however, on a reality TV show for VH1 titled, "I Know My Kids a Star," with her daughter Hayley DeMarco.
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Klara Badiola
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Licenciada en Filología Románica por la Universidad de Deusto. Inició su andadura en el campo del arte dramático simultaneando docencia (tras licenciarse impartió clases de Lengua y Literatura) con interpretación en el grupo de teatro en euskera Xaribari. Estas representaciones le llevaron a realizar un programa infantil en Radio Popular. Trabajando en este programa se presentó al casting de La fuga de Segovia (1981) de Imanol Uribe, y obtuvo un papel. El éxito de la película le impulsó a abandonar la docencia para dedicarse de lleno a la interpretación. Ingresó entonces en Antzerti, la escuela de Arte Dramático del Gobierno Vasco. Desde entonces, ha participado en innumerables películas y aparecido en numerosas series y películas realizadas para televisión.
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Eva Kotamanidou
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Eva Kotamanidou (Greek: Εύα Κοταμανίδου) was a Greek actress.
Born on March 16, 1936, in Nea Filadelfeia. In 1975, with Theodoros Angelopoulos' iconic film "The Travelling Players" she made her appearance in cinema and was awarded for her performance at the Thessaloniki and Johannesburg Film Festivals. Then he played in Angelopoulos' films "The Hunters" (1977), "Alexander the Great" (1980), "Landscape in the Mist" (1988) and "Ulysses' Gaze" (1995) and "The Weeping Meadow" (2004).
He also played in the films "The Gate" by Dimitris Makris (1978), "Rose" by Christoforos Christofis (1982), "The Blood of the Statues" by Tonis Lykouresis (1982), "The Happy Face of Leonora" by Dinos Mavroidis (1982 ), "The Last Bet" by Kostas Zyrini (1989), "Donoussa" by Angeliki Antoniou (1992) and "Zoi charisameni" by Patris Vivanko (1993). For her performances in the films "Rosa" and "Zoi Harisameni" she was awarded at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Athens, she became most known for O Thiassos (1975), Topio stin omichli (1988) and Alexander the Great (1980). She died on November 26, 2020, aged 84. Kotamanidou is included as one of the most important Greek actresses of the big screen.
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Vaitiare Hirshon
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Vaitiare was born Vaitiare Eugenie Hirshon in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and was later known as Vaitiare Bandera, after she married producer Peter Bandera in 1994-97.
Once she graduated high school at the age of 16, she signed with a top modeling agency in Los Angeles and booked her first audition. A year after, at the age of 17, she auditioned for the internationally singer, Julio Iglesias' Christmas Special music video, filmed in her homeland. She was offered the lead female role in the remake of The Bounty (1984), starring a young Mel Gibson, and turned it down. In her early 20's, she starred in her first comedy film in Spain, Tahiti's Girl (1990), and then decided to study acting, back in Los Angeles, with renown acting coach, Larry Moss.
She hosted an award-winning 13 episodes documentary, "Tahiti and her Island", for TVE- Spain. She appeared in several TV ads and was named Ambassador of Good Will for a Disabled Childrens Charity in South America. Vaitiare was the Hispanic spokesperson for Miller Beer, from 1993 through to 1995. She has also done ads for Cox Communications, Sears, J.C. Penney, Toyota, Coors Dry, Caroche Jeans-Spain and Honda-Tahiti. She starred in the Spanish-language novella, Agujetas de color de rosa (1994), which was seen in 45 countries. She also made guest appearances on Married... with Children (1987), Out of the Blue (1995) and Acapulco H.E.A.T. (1993). She also had a role in the movie, U.S. Marshals (1998).
Vaitiare's best-known role was on Stargate SG-1 (1997), where she guest-starred in several episodes as Daniel Jackson's wife, "Sha're". She appeared nude in a scene of the pilot episode, Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (1997), in which she was forced to take a Goauld symbiote by the System Lord, "Apophis". It is on the set of the pilot episode of "Stargate SG-1", where she met the father of her child, Michael Shanks. They have a daughter, Tatiana Shanks, born in 1998. They remain good friends and share custody. Vaitiare is married to business owner Edgars Asars and have a boy, Kenta Asars, born in 2005, who also models and acts, since the tender age of 2.
She's appeared in various ads with her family and Vaitiare resumed her acting career.
Vaitiare resides in Los Angeles with her family.
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