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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 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 moved to New York City in 1996 and their show was adapted into the subject of a half-hour sketch comedy show on Comedy Central in 1998. Poehler was the first member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She was also a part of the Saturday Night Live cast in 2001. From 2004, when she was the co-anchor of the SNL's Weekend Update until 2008, she was a part of the cast as 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 the executive producer for the TV show Welcome to Sweden. She is also the producer of the television series Broad City, Difficult People. Duncanville. Three Busy Debras. and Russian Doll. From 2015 to ...

Linda Cardellini

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   Linda Edna Cardellini (born June 25 1975) is an American actress. She is well-known for her roles as a teenager in Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000), ER (2003-09), Bloodline (2015-17) and Dead to Me (2019-present). This latter role earned her a nomination to the Primetime Emmy Award in Outstanding Lead Actress in the field of a Comedy Series. She was also part of the cast of Mad Men (2013-15), where she was nominated to win a Primetime Emmy Award. Her voice work includes the animated show Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated, Regular Show (2012-15), Gravity Fall (2012-16), Sanjay and Craig (2013-16). In films, Cardellini is known best for her role as Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo (2002) and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed (2004) as well as her secondary parts in Legally Blonde (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Grandma's Boy (2006), Kill the Irishman (2011), Avengers Age of Ultron (2015), The Founder (2016), Green Book, A Simple Favor (both 2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019...

Jessica Camacho

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  Jessica Lisa Camacho (born November 26, 1982) is an American actor from America. She is well-known for her frequent appearance in the role of Gypsy in The CW superhero show The Flash. Camacho was also featured in the second season on the drama on NBC Taken. Camacho was born in Chicago and began acting at age 8 when a friend suggested she attend an acting class. Camacho was immediately in love with the art and moved to San Francisco where she worked as a waitress and attended classes in the evening at American Conservatory Theater. After she completed her studies in Chicago TV and theatre after which she obtained her Screen Actors Guild membership card. After that, she moved to Los Angeles. American actress Jessica Camacho gained international fame for her role as Sophie Foster in Fox's supernatural drama series Sleepy Hollow'. Gypsy in the CW's super-hero series The Flash' and Michelle Vargas on Netflix's science-fiction drama named 'Another Live'. Camacho...

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 was born in December 8 in 1964. Her roles include Lois Lane on Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997). Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives 2004-2012. For her roles, she received three Screen Actors Guild Awards as in addition to the Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award in the category of the best actress in a musical/comedy Series. Hatcher was born December 8 1984 in Palo Alto (California), the sole child of Esther, a computer programmer, and Owen Walker Hatcher Jr. A nuclear physicist, as well as an electrician. Her father is of English, Welsh and Irish origin (Hatcher has said that he also has Choctaw ancestry), and her mother is of Syrian, Czech and Irish heritage. Hatcher was born in Sunnyvale in California and was a ballet student at the San Juan School of Dance, Los Altos. She pursued a degree in engineering and math at De Anza College. In March 2006, she alleged she had been se...

Suzanne Pleshette

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   Suzanne Pleshette, born January 31, 1937, died on January 19th 2008. She was an American actress, voice film, and TV actress. Pleshette began her stage career and made appearances in films in the late 1950s. Later, Pleshette was a prominent actor in films like Rome Adventure (1962), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (633) and Spirited Away (12001). From 1972 to 1978 she was a frequent actor in various TV productions. In addition 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 appeared on stage under the name Geraldine Rivers. Her father was a stage director, director of New York's Paramount Theater and Paramount Theater in Brooklyn as well as an executive from the network. She was a student at the Manha...

miesha tate

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   Miesha Theresa Tate is an American professional mixed martial artist. She was born on August 18th on the 18th of August, 1986. She is a participant in Ultimate Fighting Championship, where she was a former UFC Women's Bantamweight champion. Tate formerly competed for Strikeforce in which she was an ex- Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. She also served as vice-president for ONE Championship. Tate was 13th in the UFC women's bantamweight ranks at the time of her July 18th birthday. 20,22. Tate was born to Michelle Tate in Tacoma Washington and raised by Robert Schmidt and Michelle. In her early years Tate often hung out on the playgrounds with boys from her neighborhood. Tate, an Franklin Pierce High School student was interested in a particular sport and decided to choose amateur wrestling over basketball. From her freshman year until graduation, she wrestled for the team for boys. "I was kicked in the head really hard the first few weeks. Tate remembers she...