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Briga Heelan

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   Heelan was born in Andover (Massachusetts) to Kimball Heelan, actress and Lowell Public Schools teacher, and Kevin Heelan playwright. Conor is her older brother. His father is a professional dramatist who has been an instructor at the Phillips Andover Academy teacher since 1983. Heelan was a student at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and then spent an entire year at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Heelan moved to the University of Southern California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2009. When she graduated, Heelan received the James B. Pendleton Award for outstanding contribution to the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Heelan determined to focus her attention on musical theatre. Skylar Astin who was her Ground Floor co-star was met by Heelan at a musical theatre convention. Cougar Town was Heelan's debut TV role. She was credited as an unrepeatable character on Undateable, appearing in three episodes and the pilot. Because both Bill Lawrence's Ground Floor a...

Amy Poehler

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  Amy Poehler was born September 16th, 1971. She is an American actor and comedian. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and Improv Olympic in the early 1990s, Poehler co-founded the improvisational-comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. The group was formed in 1996 and relocated to New York City. Their show was included on Comedy Central's half-hour sketch comedy series in 1998. Poehler together with other comedians, created the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. In 1998, Poehler joined Saturday Night Live's sketch comedy cast. In 2004, she was a co-anchor for Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, to 2008 when she resigned from the show to take on the role of Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation. She played the role of a voice actor in the movies Shrek the Third and Horton Hears a Who Free Birds. Poehler is an executive producer of the TV show Welcome to Sweden. She also produces the TV series Broad City, Difficult People. Duncanville. Three Busy Debras. and ...

Linda Cardellini

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   Linda Edna Cardellini, born 25th June 1975, is an American actress. Her TV appearances include the teen drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), the drama thriller Bloodline (2015)-17 and the tragicomedy Dead to Me (2018). The latter part of her role resulted in her being nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actress in an Comedy Series. She was also a part of Mad Men (2013-15), which resulted in an Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Her voice-over work includes the animated show Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated (2010-13), Regular Show (2012-15), Gravity Falls (2012-16) as well as Sanjay and Craig (2013-16). The most well-known role in her film career is the one of Velma dinkley in Scooby-Doo (2002). She was also in the sequel Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed (2006). Her supporting parts included Legally Blonde (2001), Brokeback Mountains (2005), Kill the Irishman (2011) and Avengers: Endgame (2016). Return (2011) was her leading role. She was awarded the Indepe...

Jessica Camacho

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   Jessica Lisa Camacho, born 26 November 1982 is an American actress. Her frequent role as Gypsy on The CW's series about superheroes The Flash is one of her roles that is the most popular. Camacho also appeared in the second season of the NBC drama show Taken. Camacho, a Chicago native was introduced to acting after taking an acting class recommended by an acquaintance. She fell in love immediately with the art of acting, and she moved to San Francisco where her job was as waitress. Evening classes were provided at the American Conservatory Theater. She then began working in the theatre and on television in Chicago and was able to obtain her Screen Actors Guild membership card before moving to Los Angeles. American actor Jessica Camacho has gained fame for her role in Sophie Foster, a Fox supernatural drama, Gypsy in the CW's superhero show The Flash' and Michelle Vargas in Netflix's science fiction series Another Life'. Originally from Chicago Camacho began to de...

Bianca Kajlich

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   Bianca Maria Kajlich, born March 26, 1977 was an American actress. Kajlich has played supporting and starring roles in film and television and has appeared in a variety of roles, including Jennifer's on CBS' Rules of Engagement (2007-2013). Kajlich played the role of Christina Henry on Bosch in Season 5. Kajlich was the daughter of Patti Kajlich and Dr. Aurel Jan “Relo” Kajlich. Her father is Slovak and her mother is from Italian descent. Kajlich graduated from Bishop Blanchet high school in Seattle, Washington. She also went to Washington State University in Pullman. Kajlich began her career with the Olympic Ballet Theater as a ballet dancer in Edmonds, Washington. After seven years, she decided to try acting. She had already acted as a lead character in The River and Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Kajlich's first appearance as an actor was in an advertisement for Kragen Auto Parts. In the following films, Kajlich has been recognized as Bring It On, 10 Things I Hate Abou...

Teri Hatcher

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   Teri Lynn Hatcher, born on the 8th of December, 1964 was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997). Susan Mayer was one of the stars in Desperate Housewives (2004) and Susan Carver was a character on Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Hatcher was born on December 8, 1964 in Palo Alto, California, the sole child of Esther  who was a computer programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin, and Owen Walker Hatcher, Jr. who was a nuclear physicist as well as an electrical engineer. Hatcher claims that her father is English, Welsh, and Irish. Hatcher also claimed that he had Choctaw roots. Hatcher's mother is Syrian, Czech, and Irish. Hatcher has studied ballet at the San Juan School of Dance Los Altos, and was raised in Sunnyvale. De Anza College was where she took her engineering and math classes. She claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Richard Hayes Stone at the age of 5 by his husband...

Suzanne Pleshette

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   Suzanne Pleshette, born January 31, 1937, passed away on January 19th 2008. She was an American voice actress, actor film, and television actor. Pleshette began her acting career in the theater and was a part of films in the 1950s and later. Later, she appeared in films that were notable, such as Rome Adventure (1962), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), or Spirited Away (192001). In later years, she appeared in numerous television productions. She was frequently an actor in guest roles and was Emily Hartley in The Bob Newhart Show, 1972-78. She was awarded numerous Emmy Award nominations. Pleshette was the daughter of Geraldine (nee Kaplan), and Eugene Pleshette. She was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York on the 31st of January, 1937. The parents of her were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Austria-Hungary. Her mother was an artist, dancer and choreographer, who was stage-named Geraldine Rivers. Her father was a stage director and director of the Paramount Theater, New Y...

miesha tate

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   Miesha Theresa Tate ( born on 18 August 1986) is an American professional mixed martial artist. She competes in Ultimate Fighting Championship, where she was a past UFC Women's Bantamweight champion. Tate was previously a part of Strikeforce in which she was a Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. Tate was vice-president of ONE Championship. She was 13th on the UFC women's bantamweight ranking as of July 18, 20,22. Tate was the daughter of Michelle Tate and Robert Schmidt. She was raised in Tacoma, Washington by Tate. As a young tomboy Tate often hung out in the playground with boys from her neighborhood. Tate was a Franklin Pierce High School senior and decided to find a sport to engage in. The sport she chose was amateur wrestling. In her first year through graduation, she wrestled for the boys’ team. "I received my butt kicked pretty hard for the first few weeks. Tate remembers she didn't know what was happening. "I felt like a fish that had gone ou...