All Time Sexiest Actresses Vol. 8
Volume 8, which comes right after volume 7 and before volume 9
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Bunny Bleu has had two careers with two different looks in two different eras of porn. She started out in the early 1980s as a bleached blond, petite and almost underage-looking. She was featured with many of the legends of the day, such as Traci Lords and Christy Canyon, and left the business for a while. She came back in the early 1990s with new reddish brown hair (her natural color) and "enhanced" features, but still with the same enthusiasm, energy and willingness to do whatever was called for that made her one of the top draws in her early days.- Actress
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Shawnee Smith has consistently put her versatile talents to use in the film, television, theatrical and musical arenas with much success. Her impressive career includes a co-starring role on an award-winning television show, which is now strong in syndication, and a variety of memorable roles in hit feature films. She also toured America and the U.K. fronting a rather extreme rock band called "Fydolla Ho". Smith was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to Patricia Ann (Smoak), an oncology nurse, and James H. "Jim" Smith, a financial planner and U.S. Air Force pilot. Shawnee's achievements began early in her career when she appeared in the movie Annie (1982). As a young actress, she was awarded the Youth in Film Award for Best Actress in a television film for her role in the CBS drama Crime of Innocence (1985). She was honored with the Dramalogue Critics Award for her performance in the theatrical production "To Gillian on her 37th Birthday". In the same year, she received rave reviews for her co-starring role with Richard Dreyfuss at the Huntington Hartford Theatre in "The Hands of its Enemy". Shawnee then starred in The Blob (1988) for Columbia Pictures, in the hit comedy Summer School (1987) for Paramount Pictures and in Who's Harry Crumb? (1989), also for Columbia Pictures. Those roles would be followed by appearances in such highly-acclaimed films as Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Armageddon (1998), Desperate Hours (1990) and Breakfast of Champions (1999). Shawnee's television credits are equally as impressive, with a list that includes a regular role on the hit CBS comedy Becker (1998) as well as series regular roles on The Tom Show (1997) and Arsenio (1997). She appeared in the CBS television movies Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1997), I Saw What You Did (1988) and Face of Evil (1996), as well as the miniseries The Stand (1994) and The Shining (1997). Her recent film projects include The Almost Guys (2004), Saw (2004), a gritty, taut and terrifying film and the sequel Saw II (2005). Satisfied with pushing the extremes in her critically-acclaimed punk/metal band "Fydolla Ho", Shawnee is working on her first solo record with Queens of the Stone Age producer Chris Goss.- Rikki Brando is known for The Bikini Carwash Company (1992), Zipperface (1992) and Buford's Beach Bunnies (1993).
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Porn superstar Tracey Adams' career has spanned three decades. A better actress than many of her female colleagues, Tracey is a tall sylph-like porn goddess who has performed with vigor throughout her career and, unlike many longtime porn queens, has aged very well. Equally comfortable sexing with men and women, she has performed with most, if not all, of the legends of porn. In the late 1980s she decided to enhance her breasts, a procedure that many of her fans felt was entirely unnecessary, since she already sported what many considered the finest boobs in the business.
Since the end of the 1990s Tracey has drastically reduced her active film performances, but many hope that she'll reverse her policy and make another film or two.- Actress
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Dana Barron is an American actress who is best known for her role as the original Audrey Griswold in the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation which she reprised in 2003's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure for NBC television. Barron was born in New York City. Her mother, Joyce McCord, is a stage actress. Her father, Robert Weeks Barron, was a director of commercials and a Congregationalist church pastor; Robert founded The Weist-Barron School of Television, the first commercial and soap opera acting for television school in the world.- Actress
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After this feisty, highly offbeat actress from Chattanooga, Tennessee, broke into TV in the 1980s, she immediately set herself apart from the norm with a prime role as new owner Bud Cort's female friend in the bizarre mini-movie Bates Motel (1987). This rather inauspicious beginning would also set Lori Petty off on a career as a kinetic fighter and a misfit, types for which she would be best known.
Lori was born on October 14, 1963, and spent her childhood traveling the US with her father, a Pentecostal minister. Her keen talents first lent themselves toward being a graphic artist in Omaha, Nebraska, but an impulsive desire to act quickly took precedence and soon she was off to New York, where she took acting classes and pounded the pavement for jobs.
Going nowhere fast, she eventually headed for Los Angeles and finally found an "in". Following a number of mediocre TV roles, she won a bit of attention on the short-lived series Booker (1989) as a lippy secretary, then hit pay dirt in secondary roles as an outrageous Cyndi Lauper wannabe in Cadillac Man (1990) and as Patrick Swayze's ex-girlfriend/waitress who hooks up with Keanu Reeves in Point Break (1991).
It looked like mainstream stardom might happen for the tomboy actress, especially after getting cast as Geena Davis' bratty baseball-playing sister in the highly successful A League of Their Own (1992). However, while Lori proved to be an intriguing, kooky sort, she also proved more difficult to cast. Such disparate roles as a kind-hearted animal trainer in Free Willy (1993) and the sole female recruit in Pauly Shore's inane comedy In the Army Now (1994) only proved the point.
She seemed bent towards playing scrappy, hard-edged figures alongside the big action guys but started off on the wrong foot when she was replaced by Sandra Bullock in Sylvester Stallone's Demolition Man (1993) due to "artistic differences". She did play a lone female cop in the thriller The Glass Shield (1994), then found her true calling as the bizarre cartoon heroine Tank Girl (1995), which was billed as "a post-apocalyptic comedy." Playing along the same hard lines, Lori portrayed an FBI agent who teams up with a Tokyo policewoman Yûki Amami in the crime thriller Countdown (1996); played a butch lesbian in the social comedy Relax... It's Just Sex (1998); and an aggressive, tough-talking stripper at odds with the Mafia in the potboiler The Arrangement (1999). She ended the decade on TV as Max, a motel clerk, in the crime drama fantasy series Brimstone (1998).
Into the millennium, the crop-haired, tough-as-nails actress continued to take it to the limit. Following roles in the action films Firetrap (2001) and Route 666 (2001), Lori co-starred alongside the similarly tough-styled Gina Gershon in Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) as members of a punk rock band. She later starred in the creature vs. human horror opus Cryptid (2006); had a small part (First Murderer) in a contemporary Hollywood updating of Shakespeare's Richard III (2007); a deputy in the cross-country sports movie Chasing 3000 (2010); a doctor in the horror thriller Dead Awake (2016); a starring role as a lady Marine in Fear, Love, and Agoraphobia (2018); and a campy role in the low-budget horror flick A Deadly Legend (2020).
On TV, Lori would be seen as a guest in such shows as "The Beast," "NYPD Blue," "CSI: NY," "Masters of Horror," "House," "Prison Break," "Hawaii Five-0," and, more notably, in the recurring and amusing role of loony, paranoiac Lolly in the women's prison series Orange Is the New Black (2013). On the other side of the camera, the still-single Lori wrote and directed the film The Poker House (2008) starring Jennifer Lawrence, a re-dramatization of Lori's teenage years in Iowa. The film earned awards at the Los Angeles Film Festival- Actress
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Colleen Camp was born in San Francisco, California. She began working as a juvenile actress at the age of 3 and was eventually 'discovered' while working as a bird trainer at Busch Gardens. She appeared on The Dean Martin Show (1965) and made her film debut in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). She has since gone on to appear in over 100 major motion pictures and television productions.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Rebecca Rothbaum is known for Bad Girls Dormitory (1986), Robot Holocaust (1987) and Breeders (1986).- Actress
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Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.
Samantha Morton was born on May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, England to parents who divorced when she was three years old. Peter and Pamela Morton took other spouses and made Samantha part of a mixed family of 13; she has eight brothers and sisters. She turned to play-acting early in her life, while she was a school-girl.
At 13, she left regular school to train as an actress at the Central Junior Television Workshop, where she learned her craft for three years. It was at the end of her training then that she decided that a life as a professional actress was for her.
She honed her skills in television roles, working her way up from series television to TV-movies and prestigious mini-series, such as Emma (1996) and Jane Eyre (1997). Her first major film role, Under the Skin (1997), won her the Best Actress Award from the Boston Film Critics Society. Woody Allen cast her as Hattie, the "dumb" (unspeaking) lover of Sean Penn's caddish jazz guitarist in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), a beautiful performance in a role that could have flummoxed a less-talented performer. Penn was Oscar-nominated for his performance, but it was Morton's Hattie that was central to the success of the film, Allen's last unqualified success. She provided the moral and narrative center of the film. It was quite a remarkable performance for a 21-year old as she had to do all her acting with her face, having been shorn of her voice. The role of Hattie won Morton a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination.
Ironically, Morton had never seen a Woody Allen movie before. (She grew up watching the TV and listening to the radio.) She agreed to do the film after reading the script (as she says, well-written roles for women are hard to find), and the movie made her a hot commodity in Hollywood after she won the Oscar nomination. (She lost out to Angelina Jolie). Morton was offered many roles, but was very choosy as she was not in acting as a game with a payoff of stardom and money.
She had consolidated her reputation by following up the Allen film with work in indie features that showed that she was not only talented, but quite courageous as a performer. She played a heroin addict in the underrated Jesus' Son (1999) and gave a brilliant performance in Morvern Callar (2002), the story of a Scottish supermarket clerk coping with her boyfriend's suicide.
Steven Spielberg cast her, opposite superstar Tom Cruise, as the clairvoyant in Minority Report (2002), in which she more than held her own opposite Cruise and the special effects. (She took the role as Cruise and Steven Spielberg are favorites of hers). As good as she was, Morton was better served by Irish director Jim Sheridan, Sheridan cast her as a character modeled after his wife in an autobiographical picture more in line with persona and that made better use of her talents. Her performance as the young Irish mother coping with life in New York City in In America (2002) won her numerous critics' awards and another Oscar nod, this time as Best Actress.
At this point, one feels that the odds of her winning the Oscar are even or better. Samantha Morton continues to deliver fine work in provocative films such as Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 (2003), though she is branching out towards the mainstream, taking a role in the remake of that perennial family favorite, Lassie (2005).- Actress
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Dana DeArmond was born on 16 June 1979 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and director.- Karrie Emerson was a beautiful, engaging and energetic slender brunette actress who had a fleeting ten year career. She was born in 1960. Karrie first began acting in the late 70s. She popped up in guest spots on such TV shows as "Dallas," "Vega$," "The Jeffersons," and "T.J. Hooker." She briefly appeared as a sunbather in Samuel Fuller's outstanding "White Dog." Emerson had a recurring role on the popular daytime soap opera "The Edge of Night." Karrie was especially impressive and memorable in substantial lovely luckless lass in jeopardy lead roles in the enjoyably trashy low-budget 80s horror favorites "Evils of the Night" and "Chopping Mall." Alas, following her small part in the TV mini-series "From the Dead of Night" Karrie Emerson abruptly stopped acting in the late 80s.
- Actress Tiffany Helm was born on May 12, 1964. She's the daughter of Peter Helm and veteran actress Brooke Bundy. Tiffany studied dance with Roland Dupree and was a member of "The Beverly Hills Mime Troupe". She started modeling in her mid-teens. Helm made her film debut with a small role in Hard to Hold (1984). She had her sole starring part as "Kate Haskell" in The Zoo Gang (1985). Tiffany portrayed "Violet" in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985). Helm also portrayed innocent juvenile delinquent "Andrea Eldridge" in the babes-behind-bars parody Reform School Girls (1986). Moreover, Tiffany made guest appearances on such TV shows as Freddy's Nightmares (1988), 21 Jump Street (1987), You Again? (1986), Santa Barbara (1984), The Young and the Restless (1973), Bare Essence (1983) and Likely Stories, Vol. 3 (1983). She also appeared as Italian scientist, Francesca Sabatini in the 1996 video game Rama (1997) (1997). Tiffany Helm left acting to devote herself to her portrait photography business. She has recently returned to the screen and can be seen in a few upcoming Canadian productions, including Come True (2020) (2020),Red Letter Day (2019) (2019) and Stephen Kings In the Tall Grass (2019) (2019).
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Hyapatia Lee (pronounced "high-a-PAY-sha") was born Vicki Lynch. By 1977 she was performing regularly on stage as an actress at the Black Curtain Dinner Theater, Footlite Musicals, and Indianapolis Civic Theater, among others. In 1979 she became a regularly featured dancer at the Red Garter Lounge. On a whim, she entered and won the Miss Nude Galaxy contest in nearby Roselawn, Indiana. This led to her cover and centerfold modeling. When she won the Miss Nude Galaxy contest a second time in 1981 she decided to accept one of the many offers she had been given to appear in an adult movie. She wrote the script for her first movie in which she also starred. She learned to direct, produce movies, and even contribute to the musical score. She was one of the most popular stars in the history of adult films, choosing to appear in only a few quality, high-budget productions. For example, The Ribald Tales of Canterbury was a half a million dollar production. In 1993 she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame, was given the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Free Speech Coalition in 1995, and received a few other awards from the adult film industry (Actress of The Year for her role in The Masseuse, etc.) For several years Hyapatia wrote music, released two albums and performed with her band Double Euphoric. In 2005 she was named Blessed Woman for the Lost River Band of the Cherokees in Mitchell, Indiana where she performed traditional ceremonies, taught the people to speak Cherokee and sing traditional songs. She also shared the knowledge she had learned from various medicine men and women. In 2016 she began sharing this information with the rest of the world with her Native Strength books. In 2017 she began production on the Native Strength documentary series on the ancient wisdom given to Native Americans by the Star People.- Actress
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JoAnn Willette was born on 12 October 1963 in Lewiston, Maine, USA. She is an actress, known for Just the Ten of Us (1987), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) and Real Genius (1985). She was previously married to Mark Amato.- Actress
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Stacy Burke was born on 27 May 1975 in Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Stacy Burke, P.I. (2002), Lola Takes Charge (2000) and Lola and Colette: A Tight Engagement (2000).- Actress
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Born in Rockford, Illinois, on December 14, 1962, Ginger Lynn Allen went to California in 1982 to visit her ill grandfather. She decided to stay and found employment as a manager at a Musicland record store in Redlands. She had lived in a trailer in one of the worst parts of the city for almost a year when she answered an ad for figure models. This led to employment the same day and a layout in Penthouse magazine. Work in the adult-film industry soon followed. She worked in the industry from December 1983 through February 1986, making a total of 69 films (plus countless re-issues and compilations). She retired, partially because the work was no longer fun and she had very little time off. That same year, she was approached by the FBI to testify on behalf of Traci Lords, who had just been exposed as having been underage during her years in the adult-film industry. She refused and was eventually arrested for tax evasion. Following her years in adult movies, she appeared in many "legit" films throughout the late 1980s and 1990s-- most notably the "Vice Academy" films. She also starred in Metallica's music video "Turn the Page." She has a son, who she gave birth to on March 24, 1996. She tours gentlemen's clubs around the country, and signed a comeback deal with VCA Pictures in 1999. She has starred in four new adult movies so far: Torn (1999), White Lightning (2000), New Wave Hookers 6 (2000) and Taken (2001).- Striking brunette beauty Mai Lin was born on June 22, 1953 in Oakland, California. Both of Mai's parents were of Chinese descent: Her mother came from China while her father was born in California to Chinese parents. Lin also has a brother. Mia began her career in porn doing loops after her husband Dean got her in touch with people he knew in the business. Mai made the leap to hardcore features in the mid-1970s and went on to work profusely until retiring from porn in the early 1990s. In addition, Lin was also a member of the swingers club Circle S in the Bay Area in California. Mai was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2005 and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2007.
- Busty and shapely 5'3" Krissy Lynn was born on December 14, 1984 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Krissy began in the adult entertainment industry working as an exotic dancer at the strip club Southern Exposure in Utah for a year. Lynn moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and continued to work as a dancer at the gentleman's club Sapphire. While in Vegas she met people in the adult industry. This led directly to Krissy becoming involved with the porn film business. She signed a contract with the top agency LA Direct Models in September, 2008 and began performing in explicit hardcore movies in her mid 20s in 2009. Lynn has worked for such major companies as Vivid, Hustler, Wicked, and Pure Play. She won an AVN Award for Best Three-Way Sex Scene in 2011. She was nominated for five AVN awards for 2012, but did not win. Lynn enjoys hiking,exercising,and living a healthy lifestyle. She is now travelling the country with her fiancé and working remotely. She can be found online at clips 4 sale store number 87117. Lynn has a strong fan base and is said to be one of the nicest adult film stars in the business. She answers fan mail, messages, texts and calls. She takes requests from fans for clips as well. She is also involved with the empower network. Follow her online travels by typing in her name and blog.
- Bridget Powers was born on 11 October 1980 in Boise, Idaho, USA. She is an actress, known for S.W.A.T. (2003), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006).
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Alice was born and raised in New York City. After seeing "Man of La Mancha" at the age of 10, she wanted to become an actress herself. She participated in many plays in elementary and high-school and received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Hunter College.
She performed in several Off-Off Broadway productions before being cast in her first leading film role in " Mission Hill," re-released in 2011 as "No Expectations." Soon thereafter, she was cast in the TBS soap opera "The Catlins" in Atlanta and upon returning to New York began a successful commercial career. In 1989, she was cast as Frankie Frame in NBC's "Another World," a role she played for seven years.
She has since appeared in many prime time shows, including "Chicago Med," "Billions," and "Law & Order"SVU." Her multiple film roles include "Choke" with Sam Rockwell, " "13," "Twelve," and "Behind Some Dark Cloud," which stars her daughter, Julia Barrett-Mitchell. In 2020, she was cast as the matriarch of a wrestling family in the Lionsgate/Starz production, "Heels."
She is married to musician/songwriter, Stanley John Mitchell, and is the mother of Anna Barrett Mitchell, aka JoAnna, a painter, musician and songwriter, and actor/director Julia Barrett-Mitchell. They live in beautiful Brooklyn, NY.- Marilyn was born in Rossville, Georgia and was crowned Miss Chattanooga as a teenage contestant. She attended the University of Georgia in the early '70s where she majored in Drama, receiving high acclaim for her work there in local productions.
After college she moved to Los Angeles and pursued a career of acting in which she has received a measure of success. He has worked consistently over the years. - Actress
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Jami Gertz was born on 28 October 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Twister (1996), The Lost Boys (1987) and Still Standing (2002). She has been married to Antony Ressler since 16 June 1989. They have three children.- Mary Elizabeth (Mary Beth) began her professional stage career at the age of 17, followed by a busy 27 years performing lead roles in theatrical, television and feature film productions domestically and abroad, in addition to her ongoing formal education, professional development and training. She recently returns from a multi-year hiatus during which she pursued her research and formal studies in the complexities of the legal system (completing an Honours Degree in Law & Society), which fed her lifelong interest in legal and social justice, themes which she is now applying to the development of new television projects. Mary Beth kept sharpening her skills throughout her studies with recent roles that include 'Queen Margaret' in Shakespeare's Richard III and 'The Countess' in All's Well that Ends Well. Having recently moved to Montreal, Mary Beth is thrilled at the prospect of becoming a contributing entity of such a passionate and vibrant artistic community.
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Mayra Leal is a Latina cinema artist of Mexican and El Salvadorian descent, born in Houston, Texas. The University of Houston Communications and Mathematics graduate has discovered a passion for film, TV and digital media and is garnering the attention of veteran producers, directors, business leaders, marketing agencies, fashion designers, and a growing loyal fan-base.
She enjoys the business of entertainment, but loves to spend time with her family and friends when not on the set. She currently resides in Malibu.
Mayra has over 32 movie and TV credits to her name and has appeared in several music videos, featured in "Locked Up Abroad in Bangladesh" - National Geographic, "Revolution", "Southland", and "Memphis Beat". She has also been introduced in "Machete" by Director Robert Rodriguez, starred in "Playing House" by Director Tom Vaughn and supported in "Sanitarium" with Robert Englund ("Freddy Kruger") and Lou Diamond Phillips, to name a few. She most recently completed "The Wisdom to Know the Difference" by Director Daniel Baldwin with William Baldwin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Bowles Elle LaMont and Faith Stanek, which resulted in four best pictures with prominent film festivals and two best actor nominations for Mayra.Saw her in Machete...never so jealous of a cell phone as I was hers.- Actress
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K.C. Williams was born on 10 January 1970 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress. She is married to John Nicholas Christaldi.- Actress
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Judy Greer was born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan, as Judith Therese Evans. She is the daughter of Mollie Ann (née Greer), a hospital administrator and former nun, and Richard Evans, a mechanical engineer. She has German, Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish ancestry. After training for nearly ten years in classical Russian ballet, Greer shifted her interest to acting and was accepted into Chicago's prestigious Theatre School at DePaul University.
After a variety of odd jobs during college, from telemarketer to oyster shucker, Greer landed her first on-screen role just three days after graduation -- a small part in the Jason Lee-David Schwimmer comedy Kissing a Fool (1998). She flew to Los Angeles for the film's premiere and never left. Greer quickly landed a role in the dark comedy Jawbreaker (1999), with Rose McGowan and Rebecca Gayheart. Greer starred as a school wallflower-turned-babe in a story about high school girls who accidentally kill their best friend and try to cover up the murder.
She went on to play a news correspondent in David O. Russell's Three Kings (1999), landing a memorable opening love scene with George Clooney. Her performance caught the eye of Hollywood, and she appeared next in Mike Nichols's What Planet Are You From? (2000) as a flight attendant opposite Garry Shandling. Her television credits include a recurring role as Jason Bateman's assistant Kitty on Fox's Arrested Development (2003), as well as guest-starring roles on Love & Money (1999), Maggie Winters (1998), and Early Edition (1996).
Greer starred opposite Jennifer Garner in Columbia Pictures' romantic comedy 13 Going on 30 (2004), directed by Gary Winick. Greer played an office colleague alongside Garner's character, with whom she shares a checkered past.
She co-starred in writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004), opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sigourney Weaver, and William Hurt. Set in 1897, the film revolves around a close-knit community that lives with the knowledge that a mythical race of creatures resides in the woods surrounding them. The Village (2004) was released July 30, 2004, by Touchtone Pictures. Greer also co-starred in director Wes Craven's Cursed (2005), a modern twist on the classic werewolf tale written by Kevin Williamson. The busy actress also landed a co-starring role opposite Orlando Bloom and Susan Sarandon in writer-director Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown (2005), playing the sister of Bloom's character and daughter of Sarandon's character.
She also joined Jeff Bridges and Jeanne Tripplehorn in the independent film The Amateurs (2005) by writer-director Michael Traeger. The film revolves around a motley group of friends who band together to make an amateur porn film. Greer plays a young temptress at the local mattress store who secures a role in the movie by allowing the store to be used as a film location.
Greer wrapped production in New York on a co-starring role opposite Tom McCarthy ("The Station Agent") in Danny Leiner's The Great New Wonderful (2005) for Serenade Films/Sly Dog Films. The dark comedy tells five different stories against the backdrop of an uncertain post-September 11 New York. The cast also includes Maggie Gyllenhaal, Edie Falco and Tony Shalhoub.
She also appeared in writer-director Adam Goldberg's psychological drama I Love Your Work (2003), opposite Giovanni Ribisi. The film is about a fictional movie star (Ribisi) and his gradual meltdown and increasing obsession with a young film student and his girlfriend. The stellar cast also included Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, and Jason Lee and debuted at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, Greer plays Samantha, the personal assistant of Ribisi's character.
Greer had a starring role as the female lead role in the comedy The Hebrew Hammer (2003) as the feisty, fearless Esther, who joins forces with an Orthodox Jewish Blaxploitation hero (Adam Goldberg) to save Hanukkah from an evil son of Santa Claus (Andy Dick). The Hebrew Hammer (2003) debuted at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and premiered on Comedy Central followed by a theatrical release.
She also appeared in Adaptation. (2002), from director Spike Jonze. In the film, Nicolas Cage stars as self-loathing writer Charlie Kaufman (and twin brother Donald) as he attempts to adapt the novel "The Orchid Thief" for the big screen. Greer played Alice, the waitress with whom he becomes obsessed -- the object of his fantasies.
Greer turned in a scene-stealing comedic performance in The Wedding Planner (2001), with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, in which she played Penny, Lopez's sweet but ditsy assistant who tries hard, but often falls a little short. Equally adept at more dramatic roles, Greer gave a standout performance opposite Mel Gibson in What Women Want (2000), playing a suicidal file clerk rescued by the one man who can hear women's thoughts. Greer's pivotal scene with Gibson is the heart of the film.
With a genuine gift for comedy and an engaging on-screen presence, Judy Greer has quickly become one of Hollywood's most captivating talents. Having appeared in such diverse films as Jawbreaker (1999), What Women Want (2000), The Wedding Planner (2001), Adaptation. (2002), and Wilson (2017) as well as a number of upcoming feature film projects, Greer turns in scene-stealing performances opposite some of the industry's biggest stars.- Sarah Holcomb is an American former actress. Her first role was in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) as Clorette DePasto, the 13-year-old daughter of shady Mayor Carmine DePasto; Holcomb was 19 years old when filming began in October, 1977. Following "Animal House," she had roles in four other films, including "Caddyshack" (1980). She was initially cast in "Jaws 2" (1978), but was one of several teenage actors let go as the film went through many script revisions early in production.
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Nell Campbell, aka Little Nell, was born Laura Campbell in Sydney, Australia, on May 24th 1953. Her father Ross, a well known journalist and humorist, coined her Little Nell in his weekly newspaper column about their family life. From the age of ten she studied ballet, modern dance, tap and singing. On leaving high school she attended a one year course at Drama School. Aged 18 she moved to London and among other jobs busked in the street, singing and tap dancing to 1930's songs where director Jim Sharman spotted her and soon after asked if she would be in his upcoming stage production of a new musical, The Rocky Horror Show, to open at the tiny, sixty seat Theatre Upstairs of The Royal Court Theatre. After a three week rehearsal period with new songs being written as they went along, the show opened and was an overnight sensation. The following year the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show was made and although originally not a success, in the US midnight screenings with audience participation began and thanks to the wonderful fans it is the longest running film of all time. Nell's career includes a string of singles for A&M Records, opening her legendary nightclub, Nell's, in NYC and working as a journalist all the while continuing to appear in theatre, television and film. Her daughter Tilly was born in 1998.- Actress
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Summer is a native of San Antonio, Texas. She's been a ballerina most of her life. Her debut was in various commercials and a guest appearance on the WB's Angel (1999). She has gone on to star on the TV series Firefly (2002) as well as its follow-up movie Serenity (2005) and the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008).- Taylor Schilling (born July 27, 1984) is an American actress. She is known for her role as "Piper Chapman" on the Netflix original comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013) (2013-present), for which she won the 2013 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014. She made her film debut, in 2007 with Meryl Streep, in the drama, Dark Matter (2007). Schilling also starred as "Veronica Flanagan Callahan" in the short-lived NBC medical drama, Mercy (2009) (2009-10). Her other films include Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), the romantic drama The Lucky One (2012) and the political thriller Argo (2012).
Schilling was born on July 27, 1984 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Patricia (née Miller), an MIT administrator, and Robert J. Schilling, a former prosecutor. She grew up in West Roxbury and Wayland, splitting time between her divorced parents. A fan of the NBC medical drama, ER (1994), during her youth, she began acting at a young age. She became active in her middle school's theatre program, when she appeared in a stage production of "Fiddler on the Roof".
After graduating from Wayland High School in 2002, Schilling attended Fordham University's campus at Lincoln Center, where she continued to take part in stage productions, before earning her Bachelor of Arts in 2006. She then entered the graduate program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to continue her acting studies, but left after her second year to start auditioning. While attempting to break into acting, she supported herself by working as a nanny for a Manhattan-based family.
Schilling made her feature film debut, with a supporting role in the independent film, Dark Matter (2007). In 2009, she was selected to star in the NBC medical drama, Mercy (2009), as "Nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan", a tough Iraq War veteran and former military nurse-turned-medical practitioner. Reading for the part via videotape from New York City, she impressed the show's creator and executive producer, Liz Heldens, who then flew her out to Los Angeles to audition for the role. In Heldens' words, "she just blew the doors off the audition". The show ran for one season, from September 2009 to May 2010.
Schilling won the Emerson College Playwright's Festival Outstanding Performance Award. She portrayed "Dagny Taggart" in Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), and co-starred with Zac Efron in the romantic drama film, The Lucky One (2012). She currently stars as "Piper Chapman" in the Netflix original series, Orange Is the New Black (2013), based on the Piper Kerman memoir, "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison". The show premiered on July 11, 2013. For her work on the show, Schilling was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014. - Actress
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The original glamour ghoul herself, "Vampira", of late night 1950s television, was actually born Maila Syrjäniemi (later changed to the easier surname Nurmi) on December 11, 1922 in Gloucester, Massachusetts (not Finland as she often claimed). Her uncle was the multiple Olympic medal runner Paavo Nurmi.
It was director Howard Hawks, of all people, who discovered Maila while she was performing in Mike Todd's Grand Guignol midnight show "Spook Scandals". Hawks escorted the lovely blonde beauty to Hollywood with the hopes of grooming her into the next Lauren Bacall. Cast in the film version of the Russian novel "Dreadful Hollow", the project was put on hold so many times that Maila walked out of her contract in frustration. She became a cheesecake model and an Earl Carroll dancer for several years in his revues, sharing a chorus line at one time with future burlesque stripper Lili St. Cyr.
Married at the time to child actor-turned-screenwriter Dean Riesner, she came up with the idea of "Vampira" at a masquerade contest where she based her costume on Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. Heavily painted up with long fingernails, a mane of raven-colored hair, and slim-waisted black attire, the Morticia gimmick won the best costume award that night... and more. She caught the attention of local television and was placed under contract to Channel 7 in Hollywood to see if she could encourage late night viewers to stay up and watch its regular programming of cheapjack horror schlock. The macabre madam was a genuine hit (for one season, at least, in 1954-55), adding a sexy nuance and silly double entendres to her campy horror set.
She earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1954 for "Most Outstanding Female Personality". Fan clubs sprouted up all over the world. She appeared in "Life", "TV Guide" and "Newsweek" magazine articles, and could be seen around and about town and in Las Vegas judging contests and making variety special appearances. Songs were written about the "Queen of Horror". She even appeared with arms outstretched and ghoulishly attired in the worst cinematic failure of all time, Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), as Bela Lugosi's zombie-like mate, for which she is infamously associated. Lugosi actually was a huge fan of hers and had always wanted to work with her. Wood shot some footage of her years later as a tribute to Lugosi (he died in 1956 during filming) and added it before the film's release.
By the late 1950s, Maila's extended "15 minutes" of fame was over. With her career at stake (pun intended), she stretched things out with haphazard appearances in abysmal movies [The Beat Generation (1959); Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)] before closing the lid permanently on "Vampira". In later years, Maila divorced her writer/husband and became passionately involved in animal protection rights. A painter on the sly, she created some "Vampira" portraits that became a collector's item. Living very modestly in Southern California, she appeared in a small gag cameo in the film I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998). Malia Nurmi died at age 85 of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, California on January 10, 2008.- Producer
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Rachel Sweet began her career as a singer before moving towards acting, writing, and producing. She started out at 12 years old as a Country singer, mostly in New York and Nashville, but had already been in a few TV commercials before that. Her debut record was released in 1976 ,and two years later she signed a contract with British indie company Stiff, for whom she made several records. In 1981 she signed a contract with Columbia Records, with whom she turned even more in a Pop direction.- Actress
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Chynna Phillips was born on February 12, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Gilliam Chynna Phillips. She is an actress, known for Bridesmaids (2011), Striptease (1996) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). She has been married to William Baldwin since September 9, 1995. They have three children.- Actress
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Dyana Liu was born on 29 July 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan. She is an actress, known for Grey's Anatomy (2005), Tower Prep (2010) and Suburgatory (2011).- Actress
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Kristin Quick was born on 30 July 1989 in Bellflower, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Mad TV (1995), The End of the Line (2014) and Cerritos, I Love You (2017).- Diva Zappa was born on 30 July 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Pledge This! (2006), The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (2010) and Next Exit (2022).
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Gia Darling was born on 30 July 1977 in Valencia, California, USA. She is an actress and director. She was previously married to Colby Jansen.- Actress
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Bella Cosper was born on 30 July 1973 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Puppy Place (2021), Upper East Side of Neptune (2019) and The Walsh Bros. Great & Secret Comedy Show (2013).- Actress
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Emmy nominated Actress, & multi Emmy winning producer Lilly Melgar came to the scene as a VJ for Univision's "Tu Musica", a few years later her and Ricky Martin made history as the first latin leading couple on daytime television. After a few years on daytime, Melgar launched into acting in films, directing video content for major concert tours and producing.
Most recently, Melgar can be seen in the film, "NONA", directed by Michael Polish and Produced by Kate Bosworth. "NONA" is a human trafficking focused film, where Melgar stars in the supporting role of 'Madame Mariposa'.
Melgar is featured in the teen dance comedy, "To The Beat!" : available on both Netflix & Amazon.
Melgar's directorial debut was the opening video for "The Spice Girls Reunion Tour" whereby she has continued directing video content for major concert tours, most notably, short videos played throughout the "Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale Tour" and others for the "Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour". Most recently, she is part of the directing team for video content for Ricky Martin's "All In" Vegas Residency.
Melgar is currently producing Chat & Cronicas de La Guerra.- Sofia Pernas was born in Fes, Morocco, and saw a lot of the world before finally settling in Los Angeles. Initially aiming for a career in journalism, Pernas' life took an unexpected turn when she was approached by a modeling scout and later an acting agent who put her career into motion. Her unique look is attributed to a Moroccan mother and Galician father.
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Alexis Merizalde Knapp hails from Allegheny in Pennsylvania. She worked as a model before breaking into acting, starting with small roles in Couples Retreat (2009) and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010). She also came to public attention during a high-profile relationship with Ryan Phillippe, which ended on September 2010. On July 2011, Knapp gave birth to her first child, a girl named Kailani Merizalde Phillippe-Knapp.- Brittany Byrnes was born on 31 July 1987 in Australia. She is an actress, known for Babe (1995), H2O: Just Add Water (2006) and Scorched (2008).
- Rachel Storey was born on 31 July 1985 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress, known for The Crazies (2010), A Timeless Love (2016) and Dead Awake (2010).
- Andrea Drepaul's acting chops can be viewed on film and television all over the world. Born to immigrant parents, Andrea is Guyanese (Indo- Caribbean) and Portuguese, and grew up in a small farming town in eastern Canada. She speaks often of her struggles growing up bi-racially and is an advocate for Woman's Rights.
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Jennifer started acting and singing at a young age, making her stage debut at the age of 11 in her school's production of "Oliver!" From that point on, she began appearing regularly in school and community theater, in roles such as Luisa in "The Fantasticks" and Lucinda in "Into the Woods." After graduating from Skidmore College, Jennifer relocated to New York City and began pursuing her career professionally. In New York, she has performed at a variety of Off-Off Broadway theaters, including Center Stage NY, the Access Theater, Kraine Theatre, 78th Street Theatre Lab, and the American Theatre of Actors. She has also appeared in lead and co-starring roles in a number of independent and student films, and spent time at the International Film and Television Workshops as a resident actor. As a singer, Jennifer's repertoire encompasses classical, show tunes, and pop. In addition, she has appeared as a print and commercial model for Wella haircare and For Me magazine.- Actress
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Author, entrepreneur, and health and fitness expert with more than a decade of experience in the entertainment industry, Divini Rae has gained international fame as a cover model for leading lifestyle publications, including Playboy Magazine and Australia's Inside Sport Magazine.
Born in Tanana, Alaska, the rural village that is the location of the popular Discovery Channel docu-drama, Yukon Men, Rae grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water. She loved reading and excelled in her studies in high school, graduating a year early. Rae received numerous academic scholarships and studied psychology and journalism for three years in college before relocating to Australia.
While in Sydney she was discovered by a photographer, which began her swimsuit and lingerie modeling career. She also appeared in television commercials and guest starred on local television shows, all while founding and publishing the popular arts and entertainment magazine SWAY (Sydney Will Amaze You).
The November 2003 Playmate, Rae has traveled worldwide speaking at press conferences and hosting events on behalf of Playboy.
In addition to juggling motherhood and her philanthropic activities, Rae writes a health and nutrition blog and creates fitness videos for her website, DiviniRae.com. She works to raise funds for charity organizations including Save the Children and Infant Crisis Center of Oklahoma City.
Rae lives in Oklahoma City with her husband, a well respected spine surgeon, and their two young daughters.- Actress
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Sayra Player, a Missouri native and long time New Yorker, is a member of The Collective NY and The Actors Studio. She is also a published playwright. She has worked with theatre folk such as: Elizabeth Kemp, Harvey Keitel, Ellen Burstyn, Lee Grant, Estelle Parsons, Len Jenkin, Jay Schieb, Carlin Glynn, Lyle Kessler, Michael Christofer, Jim Simpson, Alexandre Marine, Polly Draper & Mac Wellman. She worked in Italy and Poland with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richard.
She attended the same high school as Arliss Howard.- Strikingly gorgeous brunette stunner Jodi Ann Paterson was born on July 31, 1975 in Balikpapan, Indonesia. Her mother is Indonesian and her father is an American of mixed Swiss and English descent. Jodi's family moved to Oregon when she was two years old. She grew up in Springfield, Oregon. Paterson attended Thurston High School, where she was an honor roll student, a member of student council, and even was homecoming princess. Jodi won the title Miss Teen Oregon in 1994 and competed in the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant. Paterson attended Oregon State University, where she was not only a member of the Beta Epsilon chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, but also a DARE speaker and a teen mentor. Moreover, Jodi was also involved in the college newspaper, the campus TV station, and the university debate team. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Communications degree in 1997. Paterson was the Playmate of the Month in the October, 1999 issue of "Playboy". Jodi was named Playmate of the Year in 2000; she was paid $100,000 dollars and was given a red Chevrolet Corvette. Paterson went on to appear in a bunch of "Playboy" videos and posed for various "Playboy" newsstand special editions. She's featured in the music video for the song "Playmate of the Year" by Zebrahead. Jodi has small acting roles in the movies Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) and Toxic (2008). Paterson married auto racer Michael Andretti on October 7, 2006 in Napa, California.
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Anne Marie Cancelmi known professionally as Annie Parisse, is an American actress. She portrayed Alexandra Borgia on the drama series Law & Order. Parisse has also starred as Julia Snyder on the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award.- Actress
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Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She was nominated for the 2008 Tony Award (New York City) for Best Actress in a Drama for "The Homecoming".
She was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Best Actress in a Drama for "A Moon for the Misbegotten".
She won the 2005 Olivier Award for Best Actress & London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance as the title role in Hedda Gabler.
She was awarded the 2003 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Mourning Becomes Electra performed at the Royal National Theatre.
She was awarded the 1999 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Newcomer for her performance in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore performed at the Young Vic Theatre.
She studied English at Oxford University.
Other theatre credits include: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) Shakespeares Globe, London; As You Like It (Rosalind) RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon & Sheffield Crucible; The Cherry Orchard (Varya) Royal National Theatre, London; Three Sisters (Masha) Royal National Theatre, London; The Coast of Utopia, Royal National Theatre, London; The Heiress, Royal National Theatre, London; and Le Misanthrope, Chichester Festival Theatre
Radio: The Rape of Lucrece, Emma, Brideshead Revisited, Dr Zhivago, Martin Chuzzlewit
TV: Nurse Jackie (Showtime) The Shadow Line (BBC) Dolley Madison (The American Experience, PBS) Prime Suspect VII (BBC) Shackleton (BBC)
Film: The Kings Speech
In 2011, Eve returned to Shakespeare's Globe in London to play Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing.- Originally from Charlotte, NC, Karen earned a BA Degree in Theatre and Film from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She made her Broadway debut as "Polly Baker" in the Tony-award-winning musical Crazy For You. Over the years she has worked on numerous television and film projects opposite actors Guy Pearce, Alec Baldwin, Elizabeth Banks, Donnie Wahlberg, Leighton Meester, Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, Amy Ryan, Shaquille O'Neal and Jack Quaid among others.
- Megan Leigh was born on 2 March 1964 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 16 June 1990 in Solano, California, USA.
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Teresa Orlowski was born on 29 July 1953 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. She is a producer and actress. She was previously married to Sascha Alexander.- Marcia Swayze was born on 24 December 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Command & Conquer (1995), Dark Secrets (1992) and Rule No. 3 (1993). She was previously married to Don Swayze.
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Danielle von Zerneck, founder of Wishing Floor Films, has produced over a dozen critically acclaimed feature films across a variety of genres, from true crime and young adult drama, to satire and holiday romance. Her dramatic works, including Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story (based on a totally nuts true story) and No One Would Tell starring Shannen Dougherty, have garnered numerous awards and nominations, including awards from the Writers Guild of Canada, the Directors Guild, Leo Awards and Canadian Screen Awards. Danielle has partnered with notable collaborators such as the smart and witty writers Bert V. Royal (Easy A) and Roseanne showrunner, Eric Gilliland and fabulous women like Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding series), Fran Drescher (The Nanny), and Barbara Hershey (Beaches, Black Swan).
Danielle's passion for teen-focused projects, including the Recovery Road starring Sebastian DeSouza, Jessica Sula, and Hayley Lu Richardson for Freeform, have been ratings hits and given her the opportunity to tackle relevant and hot button issues, from mental and physical abuse in high school relationships to revenge-porn scandals.
Danielle has also made a name for herself innovating Christmas movies. Her LGBTQ-oriented holiday romantic comedies for Lifetime, such as The Christmas Set-Up (Lifetime's first ever Christmas movie about a same-sex romance), Under the Christmas Tree (its second) were both nominated for Best TV Movie at 2021 and 2022 GLAAD Awards.
Danielle has brought star-studded casts of comedians to the world of holiday. In 2021, she partnered with SNL alums Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer to produce the Christmas movie send-up, A Clüsterfünke Christmas, for Comedy Central, which was heralded as "needlessly silly and entertaining from start to finish. It rises to the top of the Christmas-pile." (She is in development with Gasteyer and Dratch on a sequel.) Danielle's Audible Original Series, The Cinnamon Bear: A Holiday Adventure, which starred Alan Cummings, Milo Manheim, and Stephen Root, with Ryan Reynolds as Santa Claus, was recognized with a place on Audible's prestigious "Best of the Year" List in 2021.
Danielle learned her patience, relationship skills, and the power of craft services after 10,000 hours on sets both as a young actress (Donna in La Bamba and teen runaway, Lou, on General Hospital) and as the proud daughter of notable, ridiculously prolific and famously all-around good guy, TV movie producer Frank von Zerneck.- Actress
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Ashlee Füss was born on 6 September 1994 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for 2 Broke Girls (2011), American Crime Story (2016) and Grey's Anatomy (2005).- Very cute, buxom, and slender 5'4" blonde Catie Parker was born on August 3, 1993. Catie's first job was working as a babysitter. Parker started out in the adult entertainment industry in 2013. Catie has not only posed for noted erotic photographer Holly Randall, but also has worked for various adult websites that include Twistys, Nubiles, Nubile Films, and Concupiscent Coquettes.
- Kelci has always had the passion to entertain, making her stage debut singing in church at the age of two. Since then, she has performed in over 45 stage productions. Some of her favorite roles have been Mary Tilford in The Children's Hour, Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, and Veruca Salt in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Kelci is also a dedicated dancer. She has been dancing at the same studio for the past 9 years. She is disciplined in ballet, tap, jazz, acro, pointe, lyrical and hip hop. Kelci is enrolled in public High School where she studies Drama and French. When Kelci is not filming or performing on stage you can find her at the Mall. She loves to shop.
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Elise Edwards is an American TV/Film/Theater Actress, writer, comedian & Astrologer. Originally from Falls Church, VA.
Elise is the former co-host/creator of OrBits podcast.
She is of Sicilian, Lebanese, Scottish & Welsh decent.
In addition to acting, comedy & Astrology, Elise is also known for her dance ability - everything from House/Funk/HipHop to Ballroom, Argentine Tango and Belly Dance. As a youth, she studied Lindy Hop with Swing greats Craig Hutchinson and Frankie Manning; she was also a student of Master Teacher & Dance Innovator, Cecilia Marta.- Tanya Fischer is an actress, known for Assassination of a High School President (2008), A Civilized Life (2018) and Life on Mars (2008).
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Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia, by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of British Columbia tuition and expenses.- Actress
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Hope Riley was born on 3 August 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Holiday (2006), 17 Again (2009) and How I Met Your Mother (2005). She was previously married to Tim Miner.- Producer
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Shanelle Gray was born Shanelle Workman in Fairfax Virginia to mother Chrisoula and father Glenn. As a young girl Shanelle was in pageants and then landed a role in the Original Broadway production of Les Miserables as Young Cosette. After New York City, she moved to Los Angeles to lead the ABC Pilot Howie and Rose in the title character Rose with Howie Mandel. An actress first with recurring roles on Grey's Anatomy, Cory in the house on Disney Channel and series regular roles on Soap Operas One life to Live and The Bold & the Beautiful, at 25 the inner entrepreneur also opened an acting studio called Act 4 Reel. This became one of LA's leading Performing Arts Studios and later took the name Gray Studios after marrying her first husband. She didn't stop there. After producing over 180 short films, a couple of award winning ones, Shanelle moved on to features and television working with Shad "Bow Wow" Moss-heading his film and Tv Projects. With her Performing Arts Studio (now Shanelle Gray Studios after divorce and now managing top actors across the country with her successful management company MVP Sports & Entertainment Management, Shanelle is a busy woman. She has two daughters with ex husband that are successful actresses, Skylar Gray (Evil, CBS) and Parker Gray (Bunk'd).She comes from a family of actors including sister Ariel Winter (Modern Family), brother Jimmy Workman (Addams Family) and fiance was Demi Lovato's guitarist and current songwriter Micah Faulkner. Shanelle reps Kaileen Chang starring in a currently filming Netflix series, Kyriana Kratter starring in a top secret project, Shai Moss Bow Wow's daughter and Mila Harris's NO EXIT, to name just a few leading young actresses in Hollywood. Keep an eye out for her roster as shanelle has the eye as seasoned as her 35 plus years in the business.- Actress
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Like many other female Italian film stars, Claudia Cardinale's entry into the business was by way of a beauty pageant. She was 17 years old and studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome when she entered a beauty contest, which resulted in her getting a succession of small film roles. Her earthy interpretations of Sicilian women got her noticed by Italian producers, and the combination of her beauty, dark, flashing eyes, explosive sexuality and genuine acting talent virtually guaranteed her stardom. After Careless (1962) she rose to the front ranks of Italian cinema, and became an international star in Federico Fellini's classic 8½ (1963) with Marcello Mastroianni. American audiences may best remember her from her starring role in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).- Actress
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Busy was born Elizabeth Jean Philipps in Illinois, US. She became interested in acting when she was in fourth grade and was always starring in school productions. In the summer, she would attend theater camp.
She is more commonly known as a television actress, getting her first break on Freaks and Geeks (1999), She joined Dawson's Creek (1998) and ER (1994), but her breakthrough role has been Laurie Keller on Cougar Town (2009).- Daisy Duxxx was born on 4 August 1980 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. She is an actress.
- Extremely cute, bubbly, and sexy 5'3" blonde bombshell Lexi Belle was born on August 5, 1987 in Independence, Louisiana. Belle also lived in McComb, Mississippi and was a self-described "band geek" in high school (she played the trombone). She moved with her parents to Los Angeles, California. Lexi lost her virginity at age 17. Belle was working in a video store when she was approached by someone who had seen her MySpace profile and wanted to recruit her into the adult film industry. Lexi visited her first porn movie set three months later. Belle did her first on-screen sex scene at age 18 in December, 2005; this was also the first time she ever performed fellatio on a man. She initially used the name Nollie and first worked for Oz Entertainment. Lexi was nominated for an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2009. Belle won the Adam Film World Guide Award for Teen Dream of the Year in 2008, the XRCO Award for Cream Dream in 2010, and AVN Awards for Best New Web Starlet in 2010 and Best Supporting Actress in 2011. She's an avid fan of both "Star Wars" and punk music and goes to Six Flags amusement parks on a regular basis. Lexi was named one of the 12 most popular girls in porn by CNBC in 2011. Belle was the Pet of the Month in the May, 2013 issue of Penthouse and was named Pet of the Year for 2014.
- Brigitte Maier was born in Germany in 1952, and her family moved to the US when she was four years old. At 22 she appeared in a layout in Penthouse magazine, and the next year had a spread in Playboy. She got involved in the porn business when she was the girlfriend of European porn director Lasse Braun, and starred in his first adult feature, Sensations (1975). It made her a star and launched Braun on his long and successful career. Maier made a string of porn films in Europe, alternating between big-budget features and quickie loops. She retired from the porn industry in the late 1970s, and was last reported to be living in New York City.
- Roxanne is a British actress. She completed a BA degree in Politics at the University of London before being cast, from an open casting, for the popular British series, Hollyoaks (1995), in which she played "Louise Summers".
Her career since has included roles in the series, Lip Service (2010), for the BBC, and the feature film, Ironclad: Battle for Blood (2014), and Fox's Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012). She is perhaps best-known for playing "Doreah" in Game of Thrones (2011) for HBO, based on the best-selling novels by George R.R. Martin. Other work includes "Ironclad" for Fox, "Lip Service" for the BBC, and the feature film, The Legend of Hercules (2014). - Actress
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A sarcastic and proud Montana native, Meagan shines in front of and behind the camera. She can be seen in films such as Jason Reitman's Oscar-nominated Up in the Air and various television shows. She is a two-time Mid-America Regional Emmy award-winner and the owner of Smart Mouth Productions, the company behind the supernatural thriller, They Wait in the Dark, web series The Wingman, and various short films and commercial projects. including the award-winning Tipping Point, The Etiquette of Impotence, and Masterpiece. She continues to act, direct and produce across genres.- Actress
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JoAnna Garcia Swisher was born in Tampa, Florida. She began performing at the age of ten, when she auditioned for a local theater production and landed the lead. She continued to act in high school where she was discovered by Nickelodeon and commuted from Florida to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to star for two seasons in the television series, Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990). After graduating from high school, she spent a year attending Florida State University, but dropped out to move to Hollywood where she worked extensively in television and then in popular movies.- Actress
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Calley Luman was born on 11 August 1994 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Calley is an actor, known for Cowgirls 'n Angels (2012), Pearl (2010) and The Gray Man (2007).- Actress
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Charlotte was born in the town of Southport in North-West England as the only child of Sharon Venetta Rothwell and the first child of Adam Marc Turk. Charlotte was raised in England by her mother and her stepfather, Paul Nolan, who passed away in a tragic drowning accident on 14th February 2006. She started acting at 4 years old and competed regularly in the Liverpool Performing Arts Festival, where she won the Actress of the Year award three times for her performances in acting and Shakespeare. She arrived in Los Angeles in 2010 at the age of 19 to study with the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood, from where she graduated in May 2012. In 2013, Charlotte was named as one of BAFTA-Los Angeles' Emerging Talents and Rising Brits to Watch.- Callie Waterman was born on 11 August 1991 in Orange County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Red Riding Hood (2006), Closer to Death (2003) and The Bike Squad (2005).
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Caitlin Harris was born on 11 August 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Adrift in Soho (2019), Reasons I Don't Have a Boyfriend (2015) and Love Scene (2013).- Actress
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Tyne Stecklein grew up in Aurora, Colorado where she began dancing at the age of 3. At a very young age she had a love for the arts, and knew that she wanted to be a performer in the entertainment industry. Tyne had extensive dance and theatre training growing up in Denver, as well as in New York and Los Angeles where she would travel in the summers to study. After graduating from High School, Tyne relocated to L.A. to pursue a professional career in dance and acting. She booked her first big job as a principal dancer for the national "High School Musical Concert Tour" directed by Kenny Ortega, just a few months after moving to LA. In 2008 she worked with Ortega again, when she was one of two female dancers chosen to dance with Michael Jackson on what would have been his last concert tour. Tyne went on to dance and act in multiple films and TV shows including High School Musical, Step Brothers, Burlesque, True Blood, No Strings attached, and Fuller House.- Actress
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Amber Coyle has a passion for comedy which led her to train at the prestigious Groundlings, iO West, Upright Citizens Brigade, and The Nerdist. She has written her own stand-up routines and has performed in sketch comedy and improv troupes. Amber was born and raised in Texas and has earned a degree in Interior Design in Miami, where her modeling and acting career began. She's inspired by the genius of Paul Reubens, Betty White, Chris Farley, and Martin Lawrence.- Actress
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Crystal Colar was born on 11 August 1980 in San Jose, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and Foxworthy's Big Night Out (2006).- Actress
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Michelle DiBenedetti (aka MJ) was born in Trenton, New Jersey on August 11th. Her grandmother went to a psychic before MJ was born, stating that she would have a granddaughter in the future who would become a famous actress. So when MJ was born her parents started her on her acting roots through classes and modeling school. MJ did not go into Modeling or acting on her own until after graduating New York University for Broadcast Journalism, Political Science and Anthropology. She has a Bachelors of the Arts. MJ followed in Hallie Berry's footsteps by playing a prostitute in her first film role in "Day Zero." The next film "Brutal Massacre" was a perfect outlet for her comedian roots as she plays a stereo typical horror film actress. Her third film is a cameo in "Cluster," where she mocks internet videos.
Michelle goes by MJ DiBenedetti, so when her name is credited, she sees her whole family as being credited since everyone of her immediate relatives has the initials MJD.
She has done comedy skits for SNL and Conan O'Brian. MJ has appeared in 15 national commercials including Verizon, Monster.com, Red Lobster, Radio Shack and Pepsi. There is Buzz about her Fit Modeling career that she started in June of 1999. MJ's amazing accomplishments have been featured on Entertainment Tonight, Insider, Inside Edition, Fox News Channel, Trentonian, NYC Daily News, London's Daily Mirror, Shock, More Magazine and the Philly Edge.- Caitlin Martin is known for Crocodile (2000), Talk to Taka (2000) and When Billie Beat Bobby (2001).
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Julie Mintz was born on 15 February 1978 in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Crocodile (2000), Third Person (2013) and Boston Public (2000).- Actress
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J.C. Brandy was born on 15 November 1975 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), What Lies Beneath (2000) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). She has been married to Nathaniel Kunkel since 7 July 2005. They have one child.- Actress
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Shay Astar was born on 29 September 1981. She is an actress and writer, known for Ernest Scared Stupid (1991), 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996) and La La Land (2012).- Actress
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Erika Flores was born on 2 November 1979 in Grass Valley, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and House (2004). She has been married to Bart Burson since 1 July 2006. They have two children.- Actress
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Nina Gosiengfiao was born on 12 August 1990 in San Ramon, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for This Is Us (2016), Grey's Anatomy (2005) and Cinema Salvation (2010).- Charlotte Salt was born on 12 August 1985 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Beowulf (2007), The TV Set (2006) and The Musketeers (2014). She has been married to Oliver Coleman since 31 July 2014. They have two children.
- Tiffany has been acting, singing and performing on film and on stage since age 8. After working extensively in theatre in Phoenix, Arizona she moved to Chicago, Illinois where she attended Northwestern's School of Communication. At Northwestern she performed in student films, musicals and plays and graduated also with a Certificate in Musical Theatre. As part of the Musical Theatre Program Tiffany was chosen to go to New York to perform as part of their New Leagues Showcase. After singing with an agency, Tiffany packed up for the East Coast. In New York, Tiffany has guest starred on Law and Order: SVU and All My Children. She also works as a singer for NYU's TISCH Musical Theatre Writing Program. When not pursuing her dream she plays with her dog Fiona and enjoying traveling the world.
- Nicola Stewart was born on 12 August 1976 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Superman: Requiem (2011), Ruby Blue (2007) and Alice.
- Born and raised in Nebraska, Stephanie Vogt was a full scholarship athlete and studying toward a degree in physiology, but also possessed a strong talent in performance and was quickly signed by several talent agencies throughout the Midwest. Stephanie received her first big opportunities in the theaters of St. Louis, garnering rave reviews for lead performances as the foul-mouthed, Southern belle "Miami" in the Sam Shepard play "Seduced", and as the vulnerable, conflicted "Lisa" in "Private Eyes" by Steven Dietz. After building education and experience in theater and television in St. Louis and Chicago, Stephanie landed her first feature film and moved to Dallas to shoot a major supporting role as murder suspect "Melissa Regan" in "Pendulum". Upon completion of the film, she was offered contracts from talent agencies throughout Southeast Asia and jumped at the chance to live in Seoul, Bangkok and Hong Kong. It was during this time in her life that sparked her enormous passion for travel and language. Upon her return to the United States, she moved to Los Angeles and immediately landed roles on hit TV series including "The District", "Strong Medicine" and "CSI:Miami" among others. However, it was her recurring role as "Liz" on HBO's hit series "Entourage" (2004-2010) which earned her the most recognition.
Stephanie spent a large part of 2012 in South Africa, filming her recurring role as rogue American CIA agent "Christy Bryant" on the Cinemax and Sky original worldwide hit series "Strike Back". She returned one last time to play her controversial role in 2015 for the original series finale of "Strike Back" filmed in Budapest, Hungary.
She remained very busy between 2015-2019 on a variety of films and television series, and then during the Covid lock downs of 2020/2021, Stephanie was incredibly fortunate to go to work in Lisbon, Portugal as a lead role in the Cold War spy drama "Glória" for Netflix as CIA operative Anne O'Brien Wilson.
Stephanie moved from Los Angeles to London in 2010, where she remains for some reason, in spite of her sun obsession. - Actress
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Rebecca Gayheart was born on 12 August 1971 in Hazard, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Jawbreaker (1999), Nothing to Lose (1997) and Urban Legend (1998). She has been married to Eric Dane since 29 October 2004. They have two children.- Patricia McPherson was born in Washington where her father was a high ranking naval officer. She spent several years in France when her father was sent to Paris, and later studied advertising at the university in Florida and California. She then became a very successful model and worked as a magazine graphic artist. Knight Rider (1982) was her first TV series.
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Christine Taylor is an American actress from Allentown, Pennsylvania. She is known for acting in The Brady Bunch film series and for her collaborations with American filmmaker, actor and comedian Ben Stiller. She acted in Zoolander, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Zoolander 2 and many more. She has two children with husband Ben Stiller.- Actress
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Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born in London, England, to Pandora Anne (Stevens) and Charles Hamar Delevingne, a property developer. Her parents are both from prominent upper-class families, with her ancestors including Viscounts (Greenwood), Baronets (Hulton, Faudel-Phillips), Majors and Lord Mayors of London.
Delevingne is a fashion model, and the face of Burberry's Beauty campaign. She was previously the face of Burberry's Spring/Summer 2012 campaign and Spring/Summer 2011 campaign. She has been featured in advertising campaigns for other brands including H&M, Zara and Chanel. She also appeared on the catwalk for brands such as Moschino, Jason Wu, Oscar de la Renta, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi and Stella McCartney. Delevingne was on the covers of Vogue UK, Vogue Korea, i-D, Love, Russh, Jalouse and Style.com's Spring 2013 issue. She also walked down the catwalk as a model at the 2012 Victoria's Secret fashion show.
Delevingne has also begun a career as an actress, starring in films such as Paper Towns (2015), Suicide Squad (2016), and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).
Delevigne is ranked #17 on models.com's 50 Top Models (2013). She also won Model Of The Year 2012 at the British Fashion Awards.- Actress
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Heather Blair was born on Thursday, 14 August, 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, USA to Janet Blair and Dr. David Edens, PhD. Her father was a professor of Botany and Ecology at West Virginia State University (and Marshall University) and is now retired. Heather's mother was an educator, as well. She is an only child.
Heather started out in showbiz at the age of fifteen by being asked to be in a short film called Weedkiller (1995), which was being filmed in downtown Tucson. Until then, she had acted extensively in local and school theaters and was a "lovely assistant" to a magician. Heather filmed another short, this time with a larger part, in Rick Gutierrez's 2002 film Affection (2002). Heather made her independent film debut in a segment of Tessa Blake and Ian Williams's 2003 film The Pink House (2003). Heather did the vocals for a friend's Survivor (2000) audition, which almost won him a slot on the show. She followed up with two feature films, McG's film We Are Marshall (2006) and Scott A. Martin's Of the Flesh (2007).
In between films, Heather continues to hone her skills with work in plays and musicals (see other works). She was at one point in charge of Kanawha Players Briefs & Shorts (monthly short plays & sketch series in Charleston) and was later on the Board of Directors as Secretary and their webmaster.- Tracey Flint was born on 18 August 1968 in Los Gatos, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Providence (1991), Rage (1995) and The Life and Loves of a Male Stripper (1987). She has been married to Paul Vician since 1995. They have two children.
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Tasma Walton was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for Mystery Road (2018), The Claremont Murders (2023) and How to Please a Woman (2022). She has been married to Rove McManus since 16 June 2009. They have one child.- Whitney Sloan began her career - in Theatre - at the tender age of five. The next nine years of her life were spent performing in every play she could get her hands on, whilst moving schools/countries/States constantly. After many stage performances in London and San Francisco (most recently Maria in "Westside Story", Hodel in "Fiddler on the Roof", and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"), Whitney headed to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. Her original plan of only spending a summer there was abandoned after immediately nabbing roles on the hit shows "Judging Amy", "General Hospital", and the independent film "State's Evidence".
Whitney managed to shoot two films ("Blue Demon" and "Glass Trap"), star in a school production (Lilian Hellman's "The Children's Hour"), and maintain excellent grades for the duration of her sophomore year.
During her Junior year, she starred in the Disney Channel original movie "Go Figure" and the ABC sitcom pilot "Joint Custody" (playing Marilu Henner's rebellious punk daughter). For her role in "Go Figure," Whitney spent several week on location learning how to play ice hockey.
After working back to back for months, Whitney took a break from acting to focus on taking the S.A.T and completing her senior year of high school. During her senior year, she auditioned for and was accepted into the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) film and theater program. Prior to starting college, Whitney traveled to Canada to film "Moondance Alexander," a coming-of-age drama inspired by a true story.
"Moondance Alexander" ended up being her last acting job. After starting college, Whitney spent her time at UCLA focused exclusively on her coursework, and never returned to the entertainment industry. She graduated UCLA with a degree in political science, and went on to pursue graduate education and a career outside of California. - Actress
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Sexy and slender brunette stunner Sarah Blake was born on August 21, 1980 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Blake grew up in a small conservative town in the Midwest. Sarah was a nurse's aid while attending high school and worked in a nursing home. She majored in Computer Science in college. Blake started out in the adult entertainment industry in her early 20's as a web-cam model. Sarah eventually moved to Los Angeles, California and first began performing in explicit hardcore movies in 2003. Moreover, Blake not only has posed for various men's magazines, but also has acted in soft-core late night television fare for such cable TV networks as HBO, Playboy, Showtime, and Cinemax. Sarah moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2007. She was nominated for an AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene - Video that same year. In 2008 Blake underwent breast augmentation surgery.- Blonde stunner Barbara Moore was born on August 21, 1968 in Washington State. The actress, model and two-time US National Pro-Am Ballroom Dance Champion is often recognized as much for her role as a Fembot in the iconic feature film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) as for being one of the most popular Playmate Centerfolds of all time.
Moore was born in Spokane, WA and raised in Seattle and at age 18 relocated to Nashville. Soon after arriving in TN, she launched a modeling and acting career, while working as flight attendant for a commercial airline. Of note, she appeared in music videos for such artists as Reba McEntire, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., Aerosmith, Phil Collins and Charlie Daniels.
After her Centerfold appearance in Playboy Magazine, the model went on to serve as a foreign spokeswoman for the iconic publication and was featured in numerous videos, pictorially celebrated layouts and as a "Playboy Bunny" for The "Playboy Turns 60" Tour _(2014). Moore made guest appearances on episodes Married... with Children (1987) "Baywatch Nights"_ "Hightide"_ "Nightstand" Blossom (1990), and has acted in films including Temptress (1995), Beach House (1996), Wild Malibu Weekend! (1995), Cyber Bandits (1995) and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). Some additional credits, include headlining _"Headlights & Tailpipes"_ (2006)_ in Las Vegas and was a role in the production Tooken (2015).
In addition to her National Pro-Am dancing championships with dance partner Igor Suvorov, Moore was an NDCA Ballroom Dance instructor. Her dance achievements include 26 championships, two of which were Ohio Star Ball wins and two undefeated championships.
Moore was engaged to marry Lorenzo Lamas, but the couple amicably called off their wedding. Moore and the late businessman Mark V. Blackmon welcomed daughter Priscilla Ann in May 2007.
Moore is a Premier Ambassador for "Beauty Saving The World", a global humanitarian relief non-profit organization as well as the ambassador Playmate for "Playmates for a Peaceable Planet". - Karen Starc was born on 25 August 1979 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Boston Public (2000), Gods and Generals (2003) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She has been married to Friko Starc since 10 September 2010.