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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, born September 16, 1971 was an American actress, comedian, and writer. 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 moved to New York City in 1996 where their act became a half-hour sketch-comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. Poehler was the first member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She also joined the Saturday Night Live cast in 2001. From 2004 when she was a co-anchor for Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, to 2008 when she left the series to play Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation. She was also a voice actor for the films Shrek the Third (with Horton Hears a Who Free Birds), Inside Out, as well as the television show The Mighty B! which she also co-created. Poehler is the executive producer for the television series Welcome to Sweden. She also produces the television show Broad City, Difficult People. Duncanvill...

Linda Cardellini

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   Linda Edna Cardellini, born 25 June 1975, is an American actress. In television, she is well-known for her roles as the lead in the teenage drama Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000) and the medical drama ER (2003-09), the thriller drama Bloodline (2015-17), and the tragicomedy Dead to Me (2019-present), the latter one earning her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also appeared as an actor in Mad Men (2013-15), where she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She voiced the animated show Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated (2010)-13, Regular Show (2012)-15, Gravity Falls (2012)-16 and Sanjay & Craig (2013)-16. Cardellini's film roles include Velma Dinkley's part in Scooby-Doo (2002) The Regular Show (2012-15) as well as Gravity Falls (2012-16), and Sanjay and Craig (2013-16). Additionally, she has supporting roles in Legally Blonde (2002), Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Grandma's Boy (2006). Return (2011) resulted in...

Jessica Camacho

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   Jessica Lisa Camacho, born on 26th November 1982 is an American actress. Her regular role as Gypsy on The CW's superhero show The Flash is the one that is most popular. Camacho was also featured in the second season of the NBC drama series Taken. Camacho, a Chicago native, got her start in acting after taking an acting course suggested by a friend. She was immediately in love with the craft, and moved to San Francisco where her job was as waitress. Classes for night were provided at the American Conservatory Theater. After she completed her studies in Chicago TV and theatre she was able to get her Screen Actors Guild membership card. She later moved to Los Angeles. American actor Jessica Camacho has gained fame as 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'. Camacho, originally from Chicago, discovered acting through an introduction from a friend. Camach...

Bianca Kajlich

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   Bianca Maria Kajlich (born March 26 1977) is an American actress. Kajlich has played supporting and prominent roles in television and in film, such as Jennifer in the CBS comedy Rules of Engagement (2007–2013). Kajlich played the character of Christina Henry on Bosch in Season 5. Kajlich was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Patti and Dr. Aurel Jan "Relo" Kajlich. Her father was Slovak, and her mother was Italian. She graduated from Bishop Blanchet high school in Seattle, Washington. She also went to Washington State University in Pullman. Kajlich began her profession in ballet dancing at the Olympic Ballet Theater in Edmonds, Washington. After seven years of dancing Kajlich decided to pick on acting. By the time she was ready she had performed lead roles in The River, Swan Lake, as well as The Nutcracker. Kajlich was first seen in an advertisement for Kragen Auto Parts. Since then, she has appeared in the films Bring It On and 10 Things I Hate About You. Kajlic...

Teri Hatcher

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   Teri Lynn Hatcher, born on December 8, 1964 was an American actress. She is most well-known for her role as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997). Susan Mayer was an actress in Desperate Housewives (2004) and Susan Carver on Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Hatcher was born in Palo Alto on December 8 in 1964. Her parents are the sole daughter of Esther Hatcher (a computer programmer at Lockheed Martin) and Owen Walker Hatcher Jr., an electrical engineer and nuclear scientist. Hatcher says that her father was English, Welsh, and Irish. Hatcher also claimed that he had Choctaw ancestral ancestry. Her mother is Syrian, Czech, and Irish. Hatcher was born in Sunnyvale in California and attended ballet classes at the San Juan School of Dance, Los Altos. She was a mathematician and engineer at De Anza College. She claimed that Richard Hayes Stone, a married uncle, had been sexually abusing her since she was the age of five. The aunt of Hatcher later ...

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...