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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. The father of Heelan, as well being a performer, has been a faculty member at Phillips Andover Academy since 1983. Heelan was a student at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in the fall of 1983, after which she spent a year studying at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Heelan moved to the University of Southern California. In 2009, she received a Bachelor's of Arts degree. Heelan was given the James B. Pendleton Award upon graduation for her exceptional contributions to the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Heelan decided to pursue musical theatre. She met her Ground Floor co-star, Skylar Astin during a musical theatre convention. Cougar Town was the breakout TV character. She was named an unrepeatable character on Undateable which aired three episodes, including the pilot. Because both Bill Lawrence's Ground Floor...

Amy Poehler

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  Amy Poehler was born September 16, 1971. She is an American comedian and actress. 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 relocated to New York City in 1996 where their act became a half-hour sketch-comedy series that aired on Comedy Central in 1998. Poehler along with other comedians, created the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. In 1998, Poehler joined Saturday Night Live's sketch-comedy crew. She became co-anchor of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update in 2004 until she left the series in 2008 to appear as Leslie Knope in the sitcom Parks and Recreation. She also performed voice-over roles for the films Shrek the Third, Horton Hears a Who Free Birds, and Inside Out, and the series The Mighty B!, which she also created. Poehler is an executive producer on the tv show Welcome to Sweden, Broad City, Difficult People, Duncanville, Three Bus...

Linda Cardellini

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   Linda Edna Cardellini was born on June 25, 1975. Her most well-known roles include her role as a teen in Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000), ER (2003-09), Bloodline (2015-17) and Dead to Me (2019-present). The latter was a big hit and earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award in Outstanding Lead Actress in an Comedy Series. She also appeared as an actor in Mad Men (2013-15), which earned her nomination for an award called the Primetime Emmy Award. She was the voice of the animated series Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated (2010)-13, Regular Show (2012)-15, Gravity Falls (2012)-16 and Sanjay Craig and Sanjay Craig (2013)-16. Her film roles include Velma Dinkley's character in Scooby-Doo (2002) and the regular Show (2012-15) and Gravity Falls (2012-16) as well as Sanjay and Craig (2013-16). Additionally, she has support roles in Legally Blonde (2002), Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Grandma's Boy (2006). Return (2011) was a huge success and earned her the Independent Spirit A...

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) is an American actress. Kajlich has starred in supporting and starring roles in film and television as Jennifer, for instance on CBS' Rules of Engagement (2007-2013). Kajlich was an actor on Bosch as Christina Henry during Season 5 of the Amazon Prime series. Kajlich was the daughter of Patti Kajlich and Dr. Aurel Jan “Relo” Kajlich. Her father was Slovak and her mother from Italian descent. Kajlich completed her studies at Bishop Blanchet high school in Seattle, Washington. She also attended Washington State University in Pullman. Kajlich began her career with the Olympic Ballet Theater as a ballet dancer in Edmonds, Washington. She decided to take on acting after just seven years. At the time, she had already performed the lead parts in The River, Swan Lake, as well as The Nutcracker. Her first role as an actor was in an ad campaign for Kragen Auto Parts. Since then, she has been seen in the films Bring It On and 10 Things I Hate...

Teri Hatcher

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   Teri Lynn Hatcher, born December 8, 1964 is an American actress. Her most famous work is for her character Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997). Susan Mayer was an actress on Desperate Housewives (2004) and Susan Carver was a character on Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Hatcher was born on December 8 on 1964 in Palo Alto (California), the only child of Esther who was a computer programmer as well as Owen Walker Hatcher Jr. is a nuclear physicist and an electrician. Hatcher claims that her father is English, Welsh, and Irish. Hatcher also claimed that he has Choctaw an ancestry. Hatcher's mother is Syrian, Czech, and Irish. Hatcher has studied ballet at the San Juan School of Dance Los Altos, and was born and raised in Sunnyvale. At De Anza College she studied engineering and maths. She claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Richard Hayes Stone at the age of 5 by him, a husband-uncle, who later divorced from her aunt. Her parents were not...

Suzanne Pleshette

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   Suzanne Pleshette, born January 31, 1937, passed away January 19 in 2008. She was an American voice actress, actor film, and television actor. Pleshette began her career in theater, and appeared in films towards the end of the 1950s. Later, she appeared in a number of notable films, including Rome Adventure (1962), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), or Spirited Away (192001). She then appeared in several television productions, often as a guest actor, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978. She was awarded several Emmy Award nominations for her performance. Pleshette was the daughter of Geraldine (nee Kaplan), and Eugene Pleshette. She was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York on January 31, 1937. Her parents were Jewish, children of Austria-Hungarian immigrants and Russians. Her mother was an artist and dancer who performed under Geraldine Rivers. Her father was a stage manager, director of the Paramount Theater in New York City, of the Paramo...

Miesha Tate

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    Miesha Theresa Tate is an American professional mixed martial artist. She was born on August 18, 1986. She is currently in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) which is where she is a past UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion. Tate was earlier a Strikeforce female bantamweight champion. Tate was vice president for ONE Championship. In July 18th 2022, 2022, Tate is 13th in the UFC women's bantamweight rankings. Tate was born to Michelle Tate in Tacoma Washington and raised by Robert Schmidt and Michelle. In her early years Tate would often hang out in the playground with boys from her local area. Tate was a Franklin Pierce High School senior and sought out a sport to take part in. It was then that she decided to go for amateur wrestling. In her first year through her graduation, she was a wrestler for the boys’ team. "I was pretty proficient in being kicked in the butt for the first couple of weeks. Tate recalls that she wasn't sure what was happening. "I felt...