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Texas
Texas (
i/ˈtɛksəs/) (Alibamu: Teksi ) is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 United States, and the most extensive state of the 48 contiguous United States. The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.
During the Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas: La Provincia de Texas. Antonio Margil de Jesús was known to be the first person to use the name in a letter to the Viceroy of Mexico in July 20, 1716. The name was not popularly used in daily speech but often appeared in legal documents until the end of the 1800s.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.
Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work, for two seasons (6 and 7), on the soap opera Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as Beetlejuice (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Marrying Man (1991), The Shadow (1994), Notting Hill (1999), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006). His performance in the 2003 film The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Since 2006 he has starred as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, receiving critical acclaim for his performance and winning two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show, making him the male performer with most SAG Awards ever.
He is the eldest of the Baldwin brothers working in Hollywood.
Baldwin was born on Long Island, New York, the son of Carolyn Newcomb (née Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach. Baldwin was raised in a Roman Catholic family of Irish, English, and French descent. He has three younger brothers, Daniel, William, and Stephen, who also became actors. Baldwin has two sisters, Beth Baldwin Keuchler (born 1955), and Jane Baldwin Sasso (born 1965).[citation needed]
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Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 17 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys.
Woodard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur and interior designer. Woodard attended Bishop Kelley High School, a private Catholic school in Tulsa. She studied drama at Boston University, from which she graduated.
Woodard has made numerous appearances in television series and motion pictures. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1983 film Cross Creek. In 1993 she starred in the film Passion Fish for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She also appeared in the films Heart and Souls, Crooklyn, How to Make an American Quilt, Primal Fear, in Down in the Delta as a single alcoholic mother from Chicago forced to spend a summer with her uncle in Mississippi, and as Lily Sloane, Zefram Cochrane's assistant in Star Trek: First Contact.
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Amber Riley
Amber Patrice Riley (born February 15, 1986) is an American Actress best known for her role on the series Glee as Mercedes Jones.
Riley was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Tiny (née Hightower) and Elwin Riley. Riley auditioned for American Idol when she was 17 years old, during the show's second season, but was turned down by the producers. Amber graduated from La Mirada High School in La Mirada, California in 2004. In 2006 Riley auditioned unsuccessfully for the part of Effie White in Dreamgirls. She appeared at the 2010 MTV VMAs on September 12, 2010.
Riley plays the role of Mercedes Jones on the hit musical comedy-drama Glee. A member of the main cast, she has appeared since the show's pilot, which debuted in May 2009. She has sung numerous solos, including "Respect", "Bust Your Windows", "Hate on Me", "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", "Beautiful", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "I Look to You", "Hell to the No", "Ain't No Way", "Try a Little Tenderness", "Spotlight", "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and, three days after Whitney Houston's death, a tribute version of "I Will Always Love You". Her character gets through her schooldays with her "diva-style", stylish clothes, and has a friendship with the only openly gay boy in school, Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer). In 2011, Riley received an NAACP Image Award nomination for her portrayal of Mercedes; she has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her acting on Glee, along with the show's ensemble, and has also been nominated for a Teen Choice Award for her acting on the show. Her mother was a member of the choir in the song "Like a Prayer"—Mercedes dances with her—during the first season episode "The Power of Madonna".
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Andrea Bowen
Andrea Lauren Bowen (born March 4, 1990; Columbus, Ohio) is an American actress who is best known for playing Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives (2004–2012). She has won two SAG Awards.
Bowen is of Welsh descent and made her Broadway debut in 1996 as Young Cosette/Young Eponine in Les Misérables. At six, she was the youngest actress to ever play the role. From 1996 to 2001 Bowen was a consistent presence on Broadway. She appeared in the original company of the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music as Marta, and in 2000, created the role of Adele in the musical version of Jane Eyre. Bowen was also a member of The Broadway Kids concert group. Several of Bowen's siblings have also been heavily involved in musical theatre, performing roles in various other Broadway shows.
She briefly attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York alongside best friend Sarah Hyland.
From 2004–2012 Bowen has portrayed Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives. She currently models for Miss Selfridge.[citation needed] She has also had recurring or guest starring roles on such shows as One Tree Hill (with friend Sophia Bush), Boston Public and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In the film Red Riding Hood she appears as one of "The Three Ashleys." Most recently, she played the role of Candace in the esoteric adventure film Eye of the Dolphin. She also starred in the Lifetime Original film Girl, Positive, an experience that allowed her to help spread the message among youth that "HIV is something you can protect yourself from." More recently, she has appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer during its fourth season.
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Angela Kinsey
Angela Kinsey (born June 25, 1971) is an American actress. She currently appears as the uptight accountant Angela Martin on the hit NBC television series The Office.
Kinsey was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. When she was two, her family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where her father worked as a drilling engineer. They lived there for twelve years, and she attended the Jakarta International School. During this time she learned Indonesian, which she still knows. Her family then returned to the United States and settled in Archer City, Texas.
Kinsey studied English at Baylor University, where she became a member of the Chi Omega sorority, "took as many theatre classes as possible", and participated in the "Baylor in London" program. In a 2007 interview with the Baylor student newspaper, she discussed the influence of her years at the university:
Kinsey served as an intern on the NBC late night talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which she described as an "awesome" experience.[citation needed] She worked for the show's drummer Max Weinberg. The experience inspired Kinsey to take a coast-to-coast road trip with a friend from New York City to California.
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Billy Brooks
William McKinley Brooks III (born August 20, 1953 in Houston, Texas) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals 11th overall in the 1976 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oklahoma.
Brooks also played for the San Diego Chargers and Houston Oilers.
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Brad Garrett
Bradley "Brad" Garrett (born Bradley H. Gerstenfeld; April 14, 1960) is an American actor, voice-actor, stand-up comedian, and professional poker-player. He has appeared in numerous television and film roles.
Garret was initially successful as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s. Taking advantage of that success in the late 1980s, Garrett began appearing in television and film, in minor and guest roles. His first major role was Robert Barone on the CBS series Everybody Loves Raymond. The series debuted September 13, 1996 and ran nine seasons.
Garrett's film roles include Stuart Little 2, Finding Nemo, Garfield, The Amateurs, The Pacifier, Night at the Museum 2, Tangled, and Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil. Garrett also played the leading role of Eddie Stark on the FOX television series 'Til Death from 2006 to 2010.
Garrett has won three primetime Emmy awards, with three other nominations. Garrett is still prominent within stand-up comedy and is also a professional poker player. Garrett's trademarks are his height (6 feet 8½ inches; 204 cm) and deep voice.
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Brenda Strong
Brenda Lee Strong (born March 25, 1960) is an American actress and yoga instructor, best known for her role as Mary Alice Young on the ABC television comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives (2004–2012), for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards. She also is known for role as Sally Sasser on the ABC comedy-drama Sports Night (1998–2000) and currently starring as Ann Ewing on the TNT drama series Dallas.
Strong was born in Brightwood, Oregon, and grew up near Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1978 from Sandy Union High School in Sandy, Oregon. She later moved to Arizona to attend college, and graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Music in musical theater. Strong was crowned Miss Arizona in 1980; she is 6'0" (1.83 m) tall.
Her first break after college was a spot in Billy Crystal’s 1984 music video You Look Marvelous. Her first television appearances came in 1985 with brief stints on St. Elsewhere, MacGyver, and Cheers. She also made guest appearances on Matlock, Murphy Brown, Herman's Head, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Blossom, and had a brief role on the cult favorite Twin Peaks.
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Brian Baumgartner
Brian Baumgartner (born November 29, 1972) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor, best known for playing Kevin Malone on The Office.
Baumgartner was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended Holy Innocents' Episcopal School. He attended high school at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta with future Office co-star Ed Helms, who graduated one year later in 1992. He then attended SMU before moving to Los Angeles, Baumgartner served as Artistic Director of Hidden Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he received multiple awards for artistic and acting excellence. In addition, Baumgartner performed regionally at the Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Children's Theater Company, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Baumgartner studied acting at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Brian is also a Los Angeles Dodgers fan. Baumgartner lives in Los Angeles and Hilton Head with his wife and daughter.
Baumgartner's television appearances include roles on Jake in Progress, Arrested Development and Everwood. He also acted as a talent scout on Last Comic Standing with his Office co-star Kate Flannery. He appears in the romantic comedy feature film License to Wed opposite Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, and Office co-star John Krasinski. In June 2007, Baumgartner won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program - Comedy, for his work on The Office: Accountants webisodes. His co-stars Angela Kinsey and Oscar Nunez also shared the award.
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Chris Colfer
Christopher Paul "Chris" Colfer (born May 27, 1990) is an American actor and singer, known for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel on the television series Glee. He is a Golden Globe winner and a two-time Emmy nominee.
Colfer was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2011.
Colfer was born in Clovis, California, the son of Karyn Colfer (née Boling) and Tim Colfer. Colfer has Irish ancestry; he has stated "I’m very Irish, my family is all Irish and St. Patrick’s day in my house is crazy." He was home schooled for half of 7th grade and 8th grade because he was bullied so much in school.
While a student at Clovis East High School, Colfer was involved with the speech and debate program, where he won "many speech and debate champion titles," including placing ninth in the State Competition for Dramatic Interpretation, the drama club, the FFA, "was president of the Writer’s Club, editor of the school's literary magazine, and captain of Destination ImagiNation." As a high school senior, he wrote, starred in, and directed a spoof of Sweeney Todd entitled "Shirley Todd", in which all of the roles were gender-reversed. One of his real in-school experiences was later turned into a sub-plot for his character on Glee, when the high school teachers denied him the chance to sing "Defying Gravity" from the musical Wicked because it is traditionally sung by a woman. His grandmother, a minister, let him sing the song in her church.
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Cody Kasch
Cody Reed Kasch (born August 21, 1987) is an American actor.
Kasch was born of Scottish heritage in Santa Monica, California and raised in Ojai, California on a working ranch until he was nearly fourteen, when he moved to Camarillo, California.
After numerous television guest appearances, Kasch got his big break when he was cast in a regular role on the John Goodman sitcom Normal, Ohio, only to see that series be cancelled after only a few episodes[citation needed]. Kasch portrayed a Texan high school student in the Australian teenage series, Out There. Four years later, Kasch was hired to play the character of Zach Young on the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives, where as the son of deceased Mary Alice Young, Kasch played one of the pivotal figures in the show's main mystery. After a brief absence from the series he returned in the season 3 as Gabrielle Solis' secret admirer and again in season 7. He is also the narrator for several audiobooks[citation needed]. Kasch starred in the 2010 horror film Chain Letter as Neil Conners.
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Cory Monteith
Cory Allan Michael Monteith (born May 11, 1982) is a Canadian actor and musician, best known for his role of Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee.
Monteith was born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. His parents divorced when he was seven, and he was raised by his mother. By 13, Monteith, once a promising student, who, at age 5, could read at a fourth-grade level, dropped out of school. Monteith estimates that by the time he quit school for good at age 16, he had attended 12 different schools, including alternative programs for troubled teens. He went drinking with his friends and had a drug addiction. Monteith went to rehab at 19 after his family gave him an ultimatum: either he gets clean or they would report him to the police and press charges for stealing a significant amount of money to fuel his addiction. Looking back, he stated, "I finally said, 'I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.'"
He has worked various jobs, such as a Wal-Mart people greeter, taxi driver, school bus driver, and roofer.
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Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004). She has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, a Grammy Award, and a GLAAD Media Award.
Nixon was born in New York, New York, the daughter of Anne Knoll, an actress from Chicago, and Walter E. Nixon, a Texas-born radio journalist. She graduated from Hunter College High School, and attended Barnard College. During her college years she also studied abroad with Semester at Sea in the spring of 1986.
From 1988 to 2003, Nixon was in a relationship with photographer Danny Mozes. They have two children together, a daughter born in 1996 and a son born in 2002. Since 2004, Nixon has been in a relationship with education activist Christine Marinoni. Nixon and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009. Marinoni gave birth to a son in 2011. Nixon and Marinoni were married on May 27, 2012. Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007: "I don't really feel I've changed. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman." She identified herself as bisexual in 2012.
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Dan Lauria
Daniel Joseph "Dan" Lauria (born April 12, 1947) is an American television and film actor.
Lauria, an Italian-American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Carmela (née Luongo) and Joseph J. Lauria. He also lived in Lindenhurst, New York. He graduated from Lindenhurst High School in 1965 as a varsity football player, and he briefly taught physical education at Lindenhurst High School. A Vietnam War veteran, Lauria served as an officer in the US Marine Corps in the early 1970s, at the same point in his life that Jack Arnold, his character in The Wonder Years did during the Korean War. He got his start in acting while attending Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT, on a football scholarship.
Lauria is best known for his portrayal of Jack Arnold, the intimidating and money conscious father on the TV series The Wonder Years, that ran from 1988 to 1993. He also played James Webb in the 1998 TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Commanding Officer, USA in 1996's Independence Day. More recently he has appeared in a War Veterans public service announcement and as Police Commissioner Eustace Dolan in The Spirit. He appeared as Coach Hamstrung in The Three Stooges N.Y.U.K. on AMC in 2000. Lauria appeared on stage in New York in the summer of 2006 in an Off Broadway production of "A Stone Carver" by William Mastrosimone with Jim Iorio and Elizabeth Rossa. Lauria also had a small role in a Season two episode of Army Wives, as well as a season one episode of The Mentalist. In 2009, Dan has appeared as General Lee Whitworth, M.D. on T.V. series Criminal Minds Season 4. He's also appeared in an episode of Boy Meets World, starring Ben Savage, the younger brother of The Wonder Years's Fred Savage. In late 2009, Lauria returned to the Off Broadway stage, appearing as Jimmy Hoffa in Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby, a fictionalized account of Robert Kennedy's rise.
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David Denman
David Denman (born July 25, 1973) is an American film and television actor.
After graduating from Fountain Valley High School, Denman attended the summer training congress at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division (1993-1997, Group 26) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
He made his film debut with Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman as a deaf tight-end in the Warner Bros. football comedy The Replacements. His other feature credits include Fair Game, Shutter, Smart People, Out Cold, and Big Fish. He will appear in the upcoming feature film Let Go with Ed Asner, Gillian Jacobs, and Kevin Hart.
On television, Denman recurred as "Tony" on Drop Dead Diva. He has appeared on Brothers & Sisters, In Plain Sight, Gary Unmarried, Grey’s Anatomy, K-Ville, Without A Trace, Bones, Crossing Jordan, CSI: Miami, The X-Files, ER, Arliss, as well as in recurring roles on the UPN series Second Time Around and as Skip the Demon on Angel. He also appeared in The '60s and The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story. He is perhaps best known for his role as Roy Anderson, the ex-fiancé of Pam Beesly on the US version of The Office.
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Debra Messing
Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an American actress. She is widely known for her television roles in Will & Grace and The Starter Wife.
Following her graduation from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Messing rose to prominence in television roles in several short-lived series, such as the Fox sitcom Ned & Stacey and the ABC's science fictional Prey. It was her casting as Grace Adler in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace which catapulted Messing to TV stardom. The series ran for eight seasons, and in 2003 she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance. She also received critical acclaim for her work as Molly Kagan in the mini-series The Starter Wife. As of 2012, she is starring as Julia Houston, a leading role in the NBC musical drama series Smash.
Throughout her career she has been nominated for a total of six Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards and eight Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Messing was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the daughter of Sandra (née Simons), who has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent, and Brian Messing, a sales executive for a costume jewelry packaging manufacturer. Messing is Jewish; she is a descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland. When Messing was three, she moved with her parents and her older brother, Brett, to East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
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Dianna Agron
Dianna Elise Agron (
/ˈeɪɡrɒn/; born April 30, 1986) is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her portrayal of Quinn Fabray on the television series Glee and Sarah Hart in I Am Number Four.
Dianna Agron was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in San Antonio, Texas and San Francisco, California. She is the daughter of Mary and Ronald S. Agron, a general manager of Hyatt hotels. Agron's father's family is originally from Russia, and their original surname, Agronsky, was altered by Ellis Island officials. Her father was born Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism; Agron attended Hebrew school and had a bat mitzvah. Agron attended Burlingame Intermediate School and then Burlingame High School in Burlingame, California. She has been dancing since the age of three, and began teaching dance as a teenager.
Agron has appeared on television shows such as Shark, Close to Home, CSI: NY, Numb3rs,[citation needed] and had a recurring role on Veronica Mars. She then appeared as Harper on a 13-episode series of short films called It's a Mall World, directed by Milo Ventimiglia, and airing on MTV, and then on the second season of Heroes as Debbie Marshall, the head cheerleader/captain of the cheer squad at Costa Verde High School. Dianna has also hosted a mini Music Festival for 826LA in Los Angeles called Chickens in Love.
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Doris Roberts
Doris Roberts (born November 4, 1930) is an American character actress of film, stage and television.
She has received five Emmy Awards during her acting career, which began in 1952. She is perhaps best known for her role as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005.
Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother, Ann Meltzer, raised Roberts in the Jewish faith in the New York City borough of The Bronx with the assistance of her own parents, after her husband, whose name may have been Larry Meltzer or Larry Green, deserted the family. Doris' stepfather, whose surname she took as her own, was Chester H. Roberts. Chester and Ann Roberts operated the Z.L. Rosenfield Agency, a stenographic service catering to playwrights and actors.
Roberts' acting career began in 1952 with a role on the TV series Studio One. She appeared in episodes of The Naked City (1958–63), Way Out (1961), Ben Casey (1963), and The Defenders (1962–63).
In 1961, she made her film debut in Something Wild. She appeared in such 1960s and 1970s cult films as A Lovely Way to Die, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Honeymoon Killers, Such Good Friends, Little Murders, A New Leaf and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. In 1978, she appeared in a film about John F. Kennedy's assassination, Ruby and Oswald, in which she played Jack Ruby's sister. She also appeared very briefly in The Rose, as the mother of the title character (played by Bette Midler).
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Doug Savant
Douglas Peter "Doug" Savant (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Matt Fielding on Melrose Place and Tom Scavo on the ABC dramedy series Desperate Housewives.
Doug Savant first gained notice for playing a younger version of Mac McKenzie (played by Kojak alumnus Kevin Dobson) on the CBS nighttime soap, Knots Landing. He was paired with future Desperate Housewives co-star Nicollette Sheridan, who played a younger version of the Anne Matheson character portrayed by Michelle Phillips.
In the eighties he appeared in such films as Masquerade, starring Rob Lowe, Teen Wolf, with Michael J. Fox, and Trick or Treat with Marc Price and Ozzy Osbourne. Additionally, he was the central character in an episode of The Outer Limits called "The Hunt." In the episode, he played an android that is being hunted for sport.
From 1992 to 1997, Savant starred as Matt Fielding on Melrose Place, a role that was notable for being one of the first mainstream openly gay characters on television. His role was, however, censored greatly by the network - notably a kiss between Matt and guest star Ty Miller during the season two finale was edited out at the last minute by FOX. Savant left the series after five seasons and, a year later, his character was killed off-screen in a car crash.
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Emanuela de Paula
Emanuela de Paula (born April 25, 1989 in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, Brazil) is a Brazilian model. She has been the face of UK retailer Next for the past two seasons and can be seen in the 2009 Pirelli Calendar. She has also replaced Pernille Holmboe as the new model for the Swedish clothing store Gina Tricot.
Emanuela de Paula was born to a White Brazilian mother and an Afro Brazilian father. "I am what we call 'mulata'". She has also stated she is one of the few black women in the fashion industry.
She first took an interest in modeling at the age of nine and quickly booked a supermarket advertisement. By the age of 15, de Paula was visiting modeling agencies. She signed with the Marilyn Agency, the first agency she visited. Her first season was in New York City in 2005, and yielded runway work for the likes of Ralph Lauren, Bill Blass and Zac Posen, as well as a story for W, photographed by Michael Thompson. Her other runway credits include Shiatzy Chen, Alexandre Herchcovitch, Colcci, Diane von Furstenberg, Jennifer Lopez' Sweetface, Kenneth Cole, Lacoste, Lucy In The Sky, Rebecca Taylor, Salinas, Tommy Hilfiger, and Yigal Azrouël, and she has appeared in campaigns for Alexandre Herchcovitch, the Swedish brand Gina Tricot, Cavalera, DKNY, GAP Body, Hush Puppies, MAC, Mixed, Prescriptives, Sephora, Tommy Hilfiger, Top Shop, and Victoria's Secret. Her editorials include Allure, French, Marie Claire, Vogue, and Women's Wear Daily.
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Eric McCormack
Eric James McCormack (born April 18, 1963) is a Canadian American actor, musician, writer and producer. Born in Toronto, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute High School. He left Ryerson University in 1985, in order to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in numerous play productions.
For much of the late 1990s, he lived in Los Angeles and had minor roles. He made his feature film debut in the 1992 science fiction The Lost World. McCormack appeared in multiple television series roles, including Top Cops, Street Justice, Lonesome Dove: The Series, Townies, and Ally McBeal. McCormack later gained worldwide recognition for playing Will Truman in the American sitcom Will & Grace, which premiered in September 1998. His performance earned him an Emmy Award in the category for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001.
Aside from appearing in television, he made his Broadway debut in the 2001 production of The Music Man and starred in the 2005 film The Sisters. Following the series conclusion of Will & Grace in 2006, McCormack starred as the leading role in the New York production of Some Girl(s). He starred in the television mini-series The Andromeda Strain (2008) and returned to television in 2009 in the TNT drama Trust Me, which was cancelled after one season. Also in 2009, McCormack was cast in the science fiction movie Alien Trespass.
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Eva Longoria
Eva Jacqueline Longoria (born March 15, 1975) is an American actress, best known for portraying Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. Longoria received a nomination for the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance on Desperate Housewives.
Longoria first rose to fame on television for portraying Isabella Braña on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2001 to 2003. She became nationally recognized in the 2000s after appearing in several high-profile advertising campaigns and numerous men's magazines, reaching #14 in the FHM "Sexiest Women 2008" poll, and having appeared on the cover of various international women's magazines including Vogue, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar. Longoria has also starred in films such as Harsh Times (2005), The Sentinel (2006) and Over Her Dead Body (2008).
Eva Jacqueline Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, the youngest of four daughters born to Mexican-Americans Enrique Longoria, Jr. and Ella Eva Mireles. She was raised Roman Catholic. The Longoria family originated in Spain and has resided in Texas since before the creation of the United States, predating the English-speaking settlers.
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Felicity Huffman
Felicity Kendall Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night (1998–2000), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate Housewives (2004–2012), which has earned her an Emmy Award.
In 2005, her critically acclaimed role as a trans woman in the independent film Transamerica earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. She has also starred in films such as Reversal of Fortune, The Spanish Prisoner, Magnolia, Path to War, Georgia Rule and Phoebe in Wonderland.
Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, the daughter of Grace Valle (née Ewing), an actress, and Moore Peters Huffman, a banker and partner at Morgan Stanley. Her parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother. She has six sisters (Mariah, Betsy, Jane, Grace, Isabel, Jessie) and a brother (Moore Jr.).[citation needed] She attended The Putney School, a private boarding high school in Putney, Vermont and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan in 1980. After high school she went on to New York University where she graduated in 1984 from Circle In The Square, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama.[citation needed]
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Harry Flournoy
Harry Flournoy is an African-American former college basketball player, originally from Gary, Indiana. He played college ball for Texas Western College, later called the University of Texas at El Paso, or UTEP; he made history when his team won an NCAA Division I National Championship with the first ever all African-American starting lineup under Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins in 1966. He only played for six minutes in the championship game before twisting his knee, but following the victory he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated rebounding a ball over Pat Riley.
After his career at Texas Western, Flournoy became a teacher and basketball coach at an elementary school in El Paso, TX. Harry has 6 children; 1 daughter from his first marriage, and 3 daughters and 2 sons from his second marriage. Harry and his current wife reside in McDonough, GA, a suburb of Atlanta.
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Heather Morris
Heather Elizabeth Morris (born February 1, 1987) is an American actress, dancer, and singer, known for her role as the cheerleader Brittany S. Pierce in the musical comedy series Glee.
She began dancing when she was one. Morris competed at a young age in a variety of styles including jazz, tap, and contemporary. Morris's father passed away of cancer when she was 14 years old. "It's something that is hard for me, because I'm sad about it, but I don't dwell on it," she said during an interview workshop with students in December 2009. "I know he's in a better place, instead of suffering." After graduating from Desert Mountain High School, Morris decided to enroll in a local university but realized she was in the wrong place and moved to L.A. instead at age 19.
Morris' first significant appearance was in 2006 on So You Think You Can Dance Season 2 where she made the "green mile" or "Vegas Week" but failed to make the final 20 by a vote of 3-2.
Not discouraged, Morris moved to Los Angeles and actively pursued a career in dancing and was trained in jazz dance. Her big break came in 2007 via Beyoncé. Morris was one of Beyoncé's backup dancers on The Beyoncé Experience world tour and, following that, worked again with Beyoncé on a mini "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" promotional tour that included 2008 performances on the American Music Awards,Saturday Night Live,The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Today, and MTV's Total Request Live Finale. She also danced backup for Beyoncé and Tina Turner at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008. She later appeared in a small role in the movie Fired Up, where she met choreographer Zach Woodlee. Following that film, Woodlee brought Morris in to dance on other shows he was choreographing, including episodes of Eli Stone and Swingtown, the movie Bedtime Stories, and eventually Glee.
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Iqbal Theba
Iqbal Theba (pronounced IK-bal TAY-ba; born December 20, 1963) is a Pakistani-American actor. Theba currently has a recurring role as Principal Figgins in the show Glee.
Theba became a familiar face in the 1990s when he appeared in various TV shows and commercials in the United States.
Theba's big break was a role on the NBC pilot Death and Taxes. The pilot was not picked up, but it led to a recurring role for Theba on The George Carlin Show. Theba also had brief recurring roles on Married... with Children and ER. His other credits include appearances on Nip/Tuck, Alias, Two and a Half Men, Roseanne, Kitchen Confidential, Chuck, JAG, Arrested Development, Childrens Hospital, The Tick, The West Wing, Friends, Sister Sister, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of the Hill, Weeds and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Theba also appeared alongside Glee co-star Mike O'Malley in an episode of the sitcom Yes, Dear.
Theba guest starred on NBC's Community and appeared as Principal Figgins in the Fox television series Glee.
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Jack McBrayer
Jack McBrayer (born May 27, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He gained national exposure for his characters on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He is best known for portraying Kenneth Parcell on the television series 30 Rock, a role for which he received an Emmy nomination in 2009.
McBrayer was born in Georgia and studied theater at the University of Evansville.
McBrayer worked at Second City and iO from 1995 to 2002, an experience that introduced him to 30 Rock creator Tina Fey and prepared him "100 percent" for his role in her show.
From 2002-2004, McBrayer appeared in over 80 sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, often lampooning his own Southern upbringing by playing stereotypical hillbilly characters. On August 10, 2007 and September 20, 2008 he made a cameo appearance on Late Night playing his character (Kenneth Parcell) from 30 Rock. During the first appearance, O'Brien remarked to him, "I thought you were above this now." McBrayer also reprised his Kenneth the Page role twice (November 24, 2009 and January 13, 2010) after O'Brien's switch to The Tonight Show, and has appeared on Conan's Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour at stops in Eugene, Oregon, Universal City, California (on the Universal Studios lot where O'Brien taped Tonight), and the final tour stop in Atlanta, in his home state of Georgia.
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James Denton
James "Jamie" Thomas Denton, Jr. (born January 20, 1963) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing Mike Delfino in the television series Desperate Housewives.
Denton was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up in nearby Goodlettsville. His father, J.T. Denton (1930–1993), was a dentist who had served in the military. His mother, Mary Jean Woolslair Denton, died from breast cancer in 2002.
Denton attended the University of Tennessee where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, majored in television/journalism and earned a degree in advertising. Before he became an actor, he sold advertising for two radio stations. He began acting at the age of 23, at a community theater in Nashville. He eventually moved to California to become a full-time actor. He was for a time credited as Jamie Denton, for example in the film That Old Feeling.
Denton has appeared in several films, including That Old Feeling (1997), Face/Off (1997) and Primary Colors (1998).
He has also appeared in various television shows including Sliders, Dark Skies, Two Guys and a Girl, Ally McBeal, The West Wing, and JAG, and has had recurring roles in The Pretender, Philly, The Drew Carey Show and Reba. In 2003, he had the lead role of Special Agent John Kilmer in the short-lived crime thriller series Threat Matrix.
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Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski (pronounced /krəˈkovski/; born October 11, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her performance as Elaine Vassal on Ally McBeal, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and for her current role as Jenna Maroney on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, for which she has received three Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also regularly performs on the stage and won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway revival of Nine and an Olivier Award for her role as Miss Adelaide in the West End revival of Guys and Dolls.
Krakowski was born Jane Krajkowski in Parsippany, New Jersey. Her mother, Barbara (née Benoit), is a college theater instructor and producing artistic director for the Women's Theater Company, and her father, Ed Krajkowski, is a chemical engineer. She has an older brother. Krakowski's father's family is entirely Polish and comes from Kraków, and although she only knows a few words in Polish, her father and grandparents are fluent. Krakowski was a childhood classmate of astronaut Garrett Reisman.
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Jane Lynch
Jane Marie Lynch (born July 14, 1960) is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She obtained a Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, People's Choice Award, and Satellite Award. Lynch also received the First Annual PlanetOut.com Short Movie Award, Florida Film Critics Circle Award, and Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival Jury Award. She is open about her lesbianism; in 2005, Lynch was named one of POWER UP's "10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz".
She gained fame in Christopher Guest's improv mockumentary pictures such as Best in Show and is currently known for playing the role of Sue Sylvester in the Fox musical comedy series Glee for which she has won both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Other notable awards she has won for the series include the People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy Actress, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Her television cameos include an appearance in the Nickelodeon situation comedy iCarly and the Showtime dark comedy series Weeds. Lynch had a recurring role in the Fox situation comedy Two and a Half Men and also has had notable roles in numerous mainstream comedies, such as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Role Models, and The Three Stooges.
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Jayma Mays
Jayma Suzette Mays (born Jamia Suzette Mays; July 16, 1979) is an American actress and singer. Mays' most prominent roles include that of Emma Pillsbury on the American television series Glee, recurring appearances on Ugly Betty, and Charlie Andrews on Heroes.
Mays was born in Bristol, Tennessee and raised in Grundy, Virginia, the daughter of Paulette (née Norris) and James Mays, a high school teacher who also worked in the coal mining industry. Mays' interests as a child ranged from singing to mathematics. At the age of 15, Jayma was offered a job working on the local radio station reading the obituaries. After graduating from Grundy High School, she earned an associate's degree from Southwest Virginia Community College. Mays then attended Virginia Tech for a year before transferring to Radford University, graduating in 2001 with a degree in theatre.
In 2004, she made her first television appearance on Joey. The following year, she made her feature film debut with a supporting role in Red Eye. Mays's other credits include Six Feet Under, The Comeback, Entourage, Stacked, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, Pushing Daisies where she played both Elsita and her mother Elsa in episode four, Ghost Whisperer, and Ugly Betty. Jayma was in other movies, such as Bar Starz, Flags of Our Fathers and Blind Guy Driving. She starred in the spoof film Epic Movie and as Amy in Paul Blart: Mall Cop. She was a patient on House in the episode "Sleeping Dogs Lie" in 2006. She stars in the 2007 music video for the song "Awakening" by Switchfoot alongside her husband Adam Campbell.
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Jenna Fischer
Regina Marie "Jenna" Fischer (born March 7, 1974) is an American actress and director. She is most widely known for her Emmy-nominated portrayal of Pam Halpert (née Beesly) on the NBC situation comedy and mockumentary The Office, and has also appeared in several films, including Blades of Glory, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Promotion and Hall Pass.
Fischer was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but raised in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Jim, a plastics engineer, and Anne, a history teacher. Fischer has one younger sister, Emily, a third grade teacher. Fischer experienced her first taste of performing at age six, when she participated in an acting workshop taught by her mother at Henry School in St. Louis, a workshop also attended by actor Sean Gunn, with whom she grew up.
Fischer attended Pierremont Elementary School in Manchester, Missouri, and Nerinx Hall High School, a private all-girls Catholic school, in Webster Groves, Missouri. She holds a bachelor of arts in theatre, as well as a minor in journalism, from Truman State University, where she originally enrolled as a pre-law history major.
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Jenna Ushkowitz
Jenna Noelle Ushkowitz (born April 28, 1986) is an American stage and television actress and singer, who is perhaps best known for her performances in Broadway musicals and for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee.
Ushkowitz was born in Seoul, South Korea; she was adopted at the age of three months and raised in East Meadow, New York. Ushkowitz was raised Catholic and attended Parkway Elementary School and Holy Trinity Diocesan High School, a Catholic school in Hicksville, Long Island known for its strong theater department. During high school, Ushkowitz appeared in several musicals, including the first-ever high school production of Les Misérables. Her other roles included Penny in Honk!, Inez in The Baker's Wife, Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods, and Romaine Patterson in The Laramie Project. She graduated from high school in 2004 and moved on to attend Marymount Manhattan College, where she once again took the role of Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan in 2007 with a B.A. in Acting, with a concentration in Theater Performance and a minor in Musical Theater.
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Jessalyn Gilsig
Jessalyn Gilsig (born November 30, 1971) is a Canadian actress known for her roles in the television series Boston Public, Nip/Tuck and as Will Schuester's ex-wife Terri Schuester in Glee. She has also appeared in several episodes of NYPD Blue, Prison Break, and Heroes as well as several other series.
Gilsig was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Claire, a writer and translator, and Toby Gilsig, an engineer. She began acting at age 12. She attended high school at Trafalgar School for Girls in downtown Montreal. She later studied at Harvard University’s American Repertory Theater and attended McGill University from 1989 to 1993, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1993.
Gilsig first met Bobby Salomon when both were Montreal high school students. They briefly dated, with Gilsig commenting that Salomon was the "cool guy" and football team quarterback. After Salomon, now a film producer, moved to Hollywood in 2002, he and Gilsig renewed their friendship and began dating again. The pair wed on January 1, 2005. As Salomon is Jewish and Gilsig is Jewish on her father's side, the couple had a traditional Jewish wedding. Gilsig and Salomon have a daughter, Penelope, born on September 26, 2006. Gilsig filed for divorce from Salomon on September 8, 2010, citing irreconcilable differences. They had been separated since 2009.
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Jesse Metcalfe
Jesse Eden Metcalfe (born December 9, 1978) is an American actor. He is notable for his portrayal of John Rowland on Desperate Housewives, Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on Passions, and as the title character in the movie John Tucker Must Die.
Metcalfe was born in Carmel Valley, California, the son of Nancy (née DeMaio) and Jeff Metcalfe. His father is of French and Italian descent and his mother is of Italian and Portuguese descent. Metcalfe played in several basketball leagues during his teen years in Waterford, Connecticut and graduated from The Williams School in New London, Connecticut.
After successfully auditioning for the NBC soap opera Passions, he played Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald, one of five siblings, from the show's debut in July 1999 to July 2004, and November 2004 to January 2005, co-starring with actress Molly Stanton, creating one of Daytime's favorite couple, Charity & Miguel. The pair departed onscreen together in what is referred to a "classic daytime cliffhanger" in July 2004 but Metcafe was soon brought back to the series for a short-stint later that year.
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John Krasinski
John Burke Krasinski (pronounced /krəˈzɪnski/; born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, film director, and writer. He is most widely known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office. He also has a film career appearing in several films including Away We Go, Leatherheads, License to Wed, Big Miracle, Something Borrowed, and It's Complicated.
Krasinski was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of a Polish-American father, internist Dr. Ronald Krasinski, and an Irish-American mother, Mary Clare (née Doyle). He has two older brothers, Kevin and Paul, and was raised Roman Catholic.
Before entering college, Krasinski taught English in Costa Rica. From there, he went to Brown University, studying theatre arts with Lowry Marshall and John Emigh, and graduating in 2001 as a playwright with an honors thesis entitled "Contents Under Pressure". During his time at Brown, he was a member of the sketch comedy group Out of Bounds. In college, he also helped coach youth basketball at The Gordon School in East Providence, Rhode Island. He then attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.
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Josh Sussman
Josh Sussman (born December 30, 1983) is an American actor, best known for his role as Hugh Normous in Wizards of Waverly Place and his role as Jacob Ben Israel in Glee.
Sussman grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. He studied acting for two years at the School for Film and Television in New York City, an intense Meisner technique-based program.[citation needed]
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Judah Friedlander
Judah Friedlander (born March 16, 1969) is an American actor and comedian, known for his trademark trucker hats, oversized glasses and unkempt appearance, which he retains in many of his screen roles.
Friedlander was born in Gaithersburg, Maryland, the son of Shirley (née Sestric) and Art Friedlander. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother, a native of Pittsburgh, is Croatian American.
Friedlander started in show business as cameraman on Chris Rock's short Who Is Chris Rock?. Ten years later, Friedlander began working in front of the camera, with appearances on Lateline and roles in numerous feature film comedies including Meet the Parents, Zoolander and Full Grown Men. Friedlander's most noted movie role to date was in the film American Splendor, as Toby Radloff. He appeared as "The Hug Guy" from the Dave Matthews Band 2001 video "Everyday". He was also a series regular on VH1's Best Week Ever and currently on NBC's 30 Rock, on which he plays Frank Rossitano, one of the writers of TGS with Tracy Jordan, a spoof of Saturday Night Live. In every episode, Friedlander wears a different slogan on his trademark hat, which he designs himself.
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Kate Flannery
Katherine Patricia "Kate" Flannery (born June 10, 1964) is an American actress best known for playing the role of Meredith Palmer on the NBC hit series The Office.
Flannery was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Saint John Neumann School and Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is one of seven children in an Irish-American family.
Flannery is one of only two cast members from The Office who is actually from Pennsylvania, where the show is set. The other is Zach Woods, who plays the character Gabe.
A former member of The Second City's National Touring Company, Flannery is an original member of Chicago's Annoyance Theater, where she created over 15 shows including "The Miss Vagina Pageant" and "The Real Live Brady Bunch".
The Lampshades, her comedy lounge act with veteran improviser Scot Robinson, has been running in Hollywood at the iO WEST stage for over four years and was seen at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. The Lampshades was New York magazine's "LA Pick" for 2006 and was declared "Best Saturday Comedy Show of the Year" by LA Weekly.[citation needed]
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Katrina Bowden
Katrina Bowden (born September 19, 1988) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles on 30 Rock and American Reunion.
Bowden was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey. She attended the now-defunct Saint Thomas More School in Midland Park, New Jersey, for her grammar and middle school education. She later attended Immaculate Heart Academy in Township of Washington, Bergen County, New Jersey.
On January 28th, 2012, Bowden got engaged to her boyfriend of nearly two years, musician Ben Jorgensen.
In 2006 Katrina scored her first Acting role in a two-episode arc on the ABC long-time running daytime soap opera television series One Life to Live as Britney. Katrina has since guest starred on shows such as Law & Order: SVU, Ugly Betty and most recently on the FOX Comedy series New Girl. In May 2006 Katrina was cast as a recurring role on the Emmy Award winning Comedy television series 30 Rock which premiered on October 11, 2006 on NBC. Katrina portrays the role of a sexy and laid back assistant Cerie and also stars Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan. Katrina signed on as a regular for the shows second season in 2007 and is considered to be Katrina's breakout role. The series most recent sixth season premiered on January 12, 2012. Katrina also appeared in "Dance, Dance" a music video from American rock band Fall Out Boy.
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Keith Powell
Keith Powell is an American television actor who is best known for his role as James "Toofer" Spurlock on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock.
Powell was the Producing Artistic Director of Contemporary Stage Company, a summer theater in Wilmington, Delaware. He has produced/starred in/directed shows with Lynn Redgrave, Jasmine Guy, Keith David, Richard Easton, Duncan Sheik, and Sean Patrick Thomas. Producing credits include New York productions of The Mouse That Roared, Enter Pissarro, Indra & Agni Collide and a workshop of Kidding Jane with Ellen McLaughlin and William Charles Mitchell. Powell was the resident director for Equalogy, a professional touring company promoting social change, for which he directed two plays by August Schulenberg, Four Hearts Changing and One Night. His other directing credits include Dutchman, Quality of Silence, The Visit and Enter Pissarro. As an actor, Powell has appeared in numerous national network commercials. His theatre credits include Romeo & Juliet (The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C. ), Kidding Jane (Portland Stage Company), Macbeth (Pittsburgh Public Theater), As Bees in Honey Drown (Hangar Theater, Ithaca, NY), and The French (HB Playwrights Foundation, NYC) among others.
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Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall ( /kəˈtræl/; born 21 August 1956) is an English-Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's. For her role as Samantha Jones, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002 and received four nominations for the role. Her success in Sex and the City also led her to receive two Screen Actors Guild Awards out of seven nominations (including two for Outstanding Female Actress in a Comedy Series) and five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. In September and October 2011, she appeared in a production of Noël Coward's Private Lives in Toronto, Canada co-starring Paul Gross; the production then moved to Broadway where it opened for previews 6 November 2011.
Cattrall was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside. Her mother, Gladys Shane (née Baugh), was a secretary, and her father, Dennis Cattrall, was a construction engineer. When she was three months old, her family emigrated to the Canadian city of Courtenay in British Columbia. At 11, she returned to England when her grandmother became ill. She took a number of acting examinations with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), before returning to Canada at age 16 to finish high school.
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Kristin Davis
Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis; born February 24, 1965) is an American actress. She first rose to prominence and achieved fame for playing the role of Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place and went on to achieve greater success as Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City.
Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado. She is an only child, and her parents divorced when she was a baby. She was adopted by her stepfather, then-University of Colorado Boulder professor Keith Davis, after he married her mother, Dorothy, a university data analyst, in 1968. She has three sisters from her adoptive father's first marriage. Early in her childhood, she and her parents moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where her father served as provost and teaches psychology at the University of South Carolina.
Davis wanted to be an actress from the age of 9, when she was cast in the Workshop Theatre production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Davis lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. She then moved to New Jersey, where she attended Rutgers University. Davis graduated with a BFA degree in Acting from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1987.
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Lea Michele
Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29, 1986), known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American actress and singer. Michele began working professionally as a child actress on Broadway in productions such as Ragtime and Les Misérables. She originated the role of Wendla in the musical Spring Awakening and currently plays Rachel Berry in the Fox television series Glee and made her film debut in New Year's Eve starring alongside Ashton Kutcher. Michele performs in the soprano range.
Michele was born in the Bronx, New York City. She is the only daughter of Edith, a nurse, and Marc Sarfati, a delicatessen owner. Her mother is Italian American and Roman Catholic, while her father is a Spanish Sephardic Jew. Michele was raised Catholic, and has stated that her father "gladly" attends church with her and her mother. She grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey. She attended Rockland Country Day School for elementary school in New York and then Tenafly High School. Michele was home schooled one year while working in Toronto, Ontario on Ragtime. She attended Stagedoor Manor in the Catskills, a center for performing arts training. She was then later accepted to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, but opted instead to continue working professionally on the stage.
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Leslie David Baker
Leslie David Baker (born February 19, 1958) is an American film and television actor who plays Stanley Hudson on The Office. He also had several small roles in Scrubs and appeared on That '70s Show as a janitor after a Ted Nugent concert and played an office worker in several of OfficeMax's "Rubberband Man" series of advertisements. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University Chicago and a M.S. Human Services Administration from Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago. He taught special education, grades K-8, while working on his masters. He was reluctant to move to Hollywood, as he thought it important to first attain financial security. He once played a police officer and a customer in a stereo store in Malcolm in the Middle and a security guard in Action. His favorite episodes of The Office to date are Did I Stutter and Basketball.
In November 2011, Baker released his debut single, "2 Be Simple", with an accompanying music video. Jen Chaney of The Washington Post wrote that the song is "destined to be the party anthem at all your yuletide throwdowns," while Cameron Mathews of Spinner described the hook as "infectious" and the lyrics as "totally [capturing] the daydreams of a middle-aged man in crisis."
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Madylin Sweeten
Madylin Anne Michele Sweeten (born June 27, 1991) is an American actress.
Sweeten was born in Brownwood, Texas, to Timothy Lynn Sweeten and Elizabeth Anne Millsap. She is perhaps best known for playing the role of Ally Barone on the CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996–2005. Her younger twin brothers Sullivan and Sawyer played her twin brothers Geoffrey and Michael Barone on the sitcom. She also has a younger sister, Maysa Sweeten.
Sweeten began her acting career by attending the Kay Scott School of Performing Arts in San Saba, Texas, at age 3. While attending Kay Scott, Sweeten, at age four, was cast in the television movie A Promise to Carolyn. From there, she went on to book several commercials in Dallas. Madylin also captured the title of World's Universal Beauty a title that is part of the oldest children's scholarship competition called "Our Little Miss". Later that year, she auditioned for several television pilot roles in Los Angeles and was discovered by producers of Everybody Loves Raymond. Sweeten played Ally Barone, the eldest child and only daughter of Raymond and Debra Barone for 9 seasons, starting in 1996, until the show's end in 2005.
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Marcia Cross
Marcia Anne Cross (born March 25, 1962) is an American television actress, best known for her roles as Bree Van de Kamp on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and as Dr. Kimberly Shaw on the Fox soap opera Melrose Place.
Cross is of English descent[citation needed] and was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the daughter of Janet, a teacher, and Mark Cross, a personnel manager. Her parents raised her in the Roman Catholic religion. She grew up with sisters Susan (age 51–52), a teacher, and Ellen (age 45–46), a singer and songwriter.
Raised in Marlborough, she graduated from Marlborough High School in 1980. Having received a half scholarship to Juilliard at the age of 17, she moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study at the school where she graduated in 1984. Cross returned to school in 1997 to earn a master's degree in psychology, which she received from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2003.
She began her television career in 1984 on the soap opera The Edge of Night. She then moved from New York to Los Angeles, and soon landed roles in television movies such as The Last Days of Frank and Jessie James, co-starring with Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. In 1986 she joined the cast of the ABC daytime Soap opera One Life to Live, where she played Kate Sanders, until 1987.
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Mark Moses
Mark W. Moses (born February 24, 1958) is an American actor, known for his roles of Paul Young on Desperate Housewives and Herman "Duck" Phillips on the AMC series Mad Men.
Moses was born in New York City, the brother of actor and singer Burke Moses. Moses grew up in Evanston, IL and was the quarterback for Evanston high school football.
Moses has appeared in a number of films by director Oliver Stone, such as Platoon, The Doors, and Born on the Fourth of July.
As a character actor with appearances on projects ranging as diverse as Big Momma's House 2 (2006), Platoon (1986) and Star Trek: Voyager (1999), Moses was always reliably employed, but never became a household name.
This changed in 2004, when Moses was cast in the role of Paul Young on the hit ABC dramedy Desperate Housewives (2004–2007). As the disturbed husband of the deceased (suicide victim) Mary Alice Young, Moses played one of the pivotal figures in the show's original main mystery.
He currently plays Herman "Duck" Phillips on the AMC series Mad Men.
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Mark Salling
Mark Wayne Salling (born August 17, 1982) is an American actor, singer-songwriter, composer, and musician. He is known for his role as Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the comedy television series, Glee.
Salling was born in Dallas, Texas. He is the younger of two children of Condy Sue (née Wherry), a school secretary, and John Robert Salling, Jr., an accountant. He was home-schooled at an early age. Salling was raised in a "strict Christian home" and attended Providence Christian School and Our Redeemer Lutheran during elementary school. He attended, but did not graduate from Culver Military Academy, and later graduated from Lake Highlands High School in 2001. While he attended high school, he was a member of the school wrestling team. Performing was also an integral part of his teenage years; he often performed in bars despite being underage and participated in school talent shows.[citation needed]
After graduating from high school, he attended the Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music in Pasadena, California and began studying guitar, giving guitar lessons to make a living.
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Matthew Morrison
Matthew James Morrison (born October 30, 1978) is an American actor, dancer, musician, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for starring in multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including his portrayal of Link Larkin in Hairspray on Broadway, and most notably for his Emmy and Golden Globe nominated role as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee (2009–present). He has also received a Satellite Award for this role.
Matthew Morrison was born in Fort Ord, California, and raised in Orange County, and is of Scottish heritage. He was part of the Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) and the Orange County High School of the Arts, while at the Los Alamitos High School campus. While in high school, he did a musical with actress Jodie Sweetin. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for two years before dropping out and joining the Broadway adaptation of Footloose.
By freshman year of college Morrison already was a regular performer on Broadway. He states in Details "There were all these beautiful, beautiful dancers. As a straight guy I had some room. There were the shared interests in singing and dancing, and I always find dancing with someone very erotic and sexual. I definitely hooked up with a lot of girls when I was a young guy on Broadway. It was fun, I guess. Very joyous and free."
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Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958) is an American actress of both stage and screen as well as a singer.
After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway musicals. From 1998 until 2006, she played Karen Walker on the TV sitcom Will & Grace, arguably her best-known role to date. From 2006 until early 2007, Mullally hosted the short lived talk show The Megan Mullally Show. She has since appeared in guest-starring roles in television programs such as Parks and Recreation, Happy Endings, 30 Rock, Up All Night, Boston Legal and a GLAAD Award-winning episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine. In 2010, Mullally starred as Lydia in the second season of Party Down. She currently stars as Chief on Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital, and recurs as Tammy Swanson on NBC's Parks and Recreation and as Dana Hartz on ABC's Happy Endings. She also joined the cast of Breaking In for its second season, which began airing on March 6, 2012.
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Mehcad Brooks
Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks (born October 25, 1980) is an American actor and former fashion model.
Brooks was born and raised in Austin, Texas, where he attended L.C. Anderson High School. After graduating from high school in 1999, he attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Brooks mentioned on a September 2010 episode of The Wendy Williams Show that he turned down basketball scholarships and offers from Ivy League schools in favor of going to USC. He then left to pursue an acting career.
Brooks' early work includes being a Calvin Klein underwear model.
From 2005 to 2006, Brooks played the role of Matthew Applewhite on the ABC TV drama Desperate Housewives. He appeared in Glory Road, portraying Harry Flournoy, an athlete at Texas Western University. He acted in the 2007 film In the Valley of Elah. He guest starred opposite Tia Mowry as her boyfriend, Jerome, on the TV series The Game in 2008. In 2009 he appeared on FOX's TV series Dollhouse. Brooks played Benedict "Eggs" Talley in the second season of HBO's True Blood. Beginning January 2010, he appeared as attorney Malcolm Bennet in the now-canceled ABC series The Deep End. He plays the "new boyfriend" in a recent State Farm Insurance television commercial alongside former The Game co-star Gabrielle Dennis.
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Melora Hardin
Melora Diane Hardin (born June 29, 1967) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Jan Levenson on NBC's The Office and Trudy Monk on USA's Monk.
Hardin was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of acting manager/coach and retired actress Diane (née Hill) and actor Jerry Hardin. She is the sister of Flock CEO Shawn Hardin. She was raised in San Francisco, California, after her family moved there when she was 4 years old. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.
Hardin started her acting career as the young star of the television series Thunder (1977–1978), and has appeared in over 70 movies and television programs since, including two 1981 Little House on the Prairie episodes (as Belinda Stevens in "The Reincarnation of Nellie", Parts 1 and 2) as well as playing Michele Pierson in the 1983 television movie Little House: Look Back to Yesterday. She starred as Baby in the short-lived 1988 television series Dirty Dancing (based on the 1987 film of the same name) and two 1992 episodes of Quantum Leap (as Abigail in "Trilogy," Parts 2 and 3). She co-starred in the 1990 dancing movie Lambada as Sandy. She appeared in Absolute Power (1997) as Christy Sullivan and played Ross's dirty talking love interest in season 1 episode 15 of Friends. She was also originally cast in Back to the Future as Jennifer Parker, but was re-cast after Eric Stoltz (the original Marty McFly) was let go. Hardin was deemed too tall to star alongside Michael J. Fox.
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Mindy Kaling
Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), better known as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer who plays Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of the show's episodes.
Kaling was born Vera Chokalingam in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a Tamil father and Bengali mother from India. Her father, Avu, is an architect, and her mother, Swati, is an obstetrician/gynecologist.
She explains that she has been known as Mindy ever since her mother was pregnant with her when her parents were living in Nigeria. They were already planning to move to the U.S. and wanted a "cute American name" for their daughter, and liked the name Mindy from the TV show Mork & Mindy. The name Vera is the name of the "incarnation of a Hindu goddess."
She graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge in 1997. The following year, she entered Dartmouth College, where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe "The Dog Day Players" and the a cappella group "The Rockapellas", and the creator of the comic strip "Badly Drawn Girl" in The Dartmouth (the college's daily newspaper), as well as writing for the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern (the college's humor magazine). She graduated in 2001.
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Naya Rivera
Naya Rivera (born January 12, 1987) is an American actress and singer known for her role in the musical comedy television series Glee, as cheerleader Santana Lopez.
Rivera was raised in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California and has lived in or around Los Angeles for most of her life. Rivera is of half Puerto Rican, quarter African, and quarter German descent. At eight or nine months old, she began to be represented by the same talent agent as her mother, who had moved to Los Angeles to pursue modeling.
As a baby, Rivera appeared in commercials for Kmart, but her first significant acting job was at the age of four when she starred as Hillary Winston in the Eddie Murphy produced sitcom The Royal Family in 1991. The show received positive reviews and high ratings initially, but when star Redd Foxx suffered a sudden heart attack on set the show never recovered and was soon canceled. Nonetheless, Rivera received a Young Artist Award nomination for her performance.
Between 1992 and 2002, she had small roles in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Family Matters, Live Shot, Baywatch, Smart Guy, The Jersey, House Blend, Even Stevens and The Master of Disguise. In 2002 she also appeared in the music video for B2K's "Why I Love You". She was hired for a single-episode guest appearance on The Bernie Mac Show in 2002, but was brought back to work on a further five episodes. She was later featured in single episodes of 8 Simple Rules and CSI: Miami. In between auditions and roles, Rivera worked odd jobs as a telemarketer, a nanny, and a greeter at an Abercrombie & Fitch store.
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Nicollette Sheridan
Nicollette Sheridan (born November 21, 1963) is an English television and film actress, best known for playing Edie Britt on the ABC dramedy series Desperate Housewives (2004-2009) and as Paige Matheson of the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1986–1993). In film, she is known for her roles in The Sure Thing (1985), Noises Off (1992), Spy Hard (1996) and Beverly Hills Ninja (1997).
Sheridan was born in Worthing, Sussex, England, the daughter of actress Sally Sheridan (née Adams). She attended school at Millfield in Somerset.[citation needed] In 1969, her mother was working alongside Greek-American actor Telly Savalas on the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The couple started an affair, and after completion of shooting Savalas moved the entire family to the United States. Her mother gave birth to a son, Nicholas Savalas, on February 24, 1973.[citation needed] Telly Savalas and Sally Sheridan separated in 1977, and the family split their time between the United States and England.[citation needed]
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Oscar Nunez
Oscar Nunez (born November 18, 1958), sometimes credited as Oscar Núñez, is a Cuban American actor and comedian. He currently appears as Dunder Mifflin's paper supply accountant, Oscar Martinez, on NBC's The Office.
Born in Cuba, Nunez moved to Union City, New Jersey when he was fourteen years old. He is bilingual in English and Spanish. Having attended various colleges in New York, including Fashion Institute of Technology and the Parsons School of Design for writing, Nunez became a certified dental technician from Magna Institute of Dental Technology.
Nunez started his comedy career in New York, founding and performing over 300 shows with The Shock of the Funny theater company. The troupe was active in the East Village for several years. In addition to his work with Shock, Nunez appeared in theater in New York and Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angeles in the mid 1990s. In LA, he joined The Groundlings and performed in their Sunday Company. While with the Groundlings, he wrote and starred in a production called "Smooth Down There."
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Patricia Heaton
Patricia Helen Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress, comedienne, producer and model, best known for portraying Debra Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005, for which she won two Emmy Awards. In 2007, she made a return to sitcom television opposite Kelsey Grammer in the Fox comedy series Back to You, which was canceled in 2008. She currently stars as Frankie Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle.
Patricia Heaton was born in Bay Village, Ohio, the daughter of Patricia (née Hurd) and Chuck Heaton, who was a sportswriter for the Plain Dealer. She was raised as a devout Roman Catholic.
Heaton has three sisters, Sharon, Alice, and Frances, and one brother, Michael, who is the "Minister of Culture" columnist for the Plain Dealer and a writer for the paper's Friday Magazine.
While attending the Ohio State University, she became a sister of Delta Gamma Sorority. She later graduated with a B.A. in drama. In 1980, Heaton moved to New York City to study with drama teacher William Esper.
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Paul Lieberstein
Paul Bevan Lieberstein (born February 22, 1967)[citation needed] is an American screenwriter, actor and television producer. An Emmy Award winner, he is most widely known as a writer, producer, and as supporting cast member Toby Flenderson on the U.S. version of the sitcom The Office. He has been the series' showrunner since its 5th season. On March 22, 2012, it was announced that Lieberstein will be stepping down from his showrunner role (the 8th season having already wrapped production) to focus on a planned spin-off series featuring Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute, which is tentatively called "The Farm" and Lieberstein will be the showrunner for when/if it becomes an NBC series.
In a SuicideGirls interview, Lieberstein noted that "as an actor, which is just a very small percentage of me, I don’t feel Toby while I’m writing. It’s the hardest of the characters to access." In an interview for his alma mater, Hamilton College, Lieberstein commented on the bigger picture:
On June 12, 2008, Variety magazine reported that he would become one of the executive producers of The Office.
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Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
Boyle, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe.
Boyle was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania of Irish descent, the son of Alice and Peter Boyle Sr. He moved with his family to nearby Philadelphia. His father was a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951–1963 who, among many other things, played the Western-show host Chuck Wagon Pete, and hosted the afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals, which showed vintage Little Rascals, Three Stooges comedy shorts and Popeye cartoons.
He was raised Roman Catholic and he attended St. Francis de Sales School and West Philadelphia Catholic High School For Boys. After high school Boyle spent three years as a novice of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic teaching order. He lived in a house of studies with other novices and earned a BA from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 1957, but left the order because he did not feel called to religious life. While in Philadelphia, he worked as a cameraman on the cooking show Television Kitchen, hosted by Florence Hanford.
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Phyllis Smith
Phyllis Smith (born July 10, 1951) is an American film and television actress who is best known for playing Phyllis Lapin-Vance on The Office.
Smith was born July 10, 1951 in Lemay, Missouri, outside St. Louis. She graduated from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1972 with a degree in elementary education. In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked as a dancer, a cheerleader for the old St. Louis Cardinals football team, and a burlesque performer ("No stripping, but I did wear feathers," says Smith). She was forced to quit dancing after suffering a knee injury. Smith later worked in Hollywood as an actress and in casting; she was working as a casting associate on The Office when she was offered the role of Phyllis, a character created specifically for her — a soft-spoken saleswoman who tends to disagree with the pompous office manager Michael Scott. Smith received Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2006 and 2007 for her performance in The Office, in the category "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series".
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Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor and comedian. He is primarily known for his Emmy-nominated role as the egomaniacal Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office. He has also directed three episodes of The Office: the sixth season's "The Cover-Up", the seventh season's "Classy Christmas", and the eighth season's "Get the Girl".
Wilson was born in Seattle, Washington, the son of Shay Cooper, a yoga teacher and actress, and Robert G. Wilson, a novel writer, artist, and business consultant who wrote the science fiction novel Tentacles of Dawn. Rainn showed the book and read from it on Jimmy Kimmel Live! March 22, 2011. Wilson attended Central Middle School and Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington, where he played the clarinet and bassoon in the band. He transferred to and graduated from New Trier High School after his family moved to Winnetka, Illinois to serve at the Bahá'í National Center. Wilson has a theatre background from Tufts University and the University of Washington, and has taught acting classes. He holds an MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts and was a member of The Acting Company. While acting in theatrical productions in New York, he drove a moving van to make ends meet.
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Ray Romano
Raymond Albert Romano (born December 21, 1957) is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian, best known for his roles on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and in the Ice Age film series. He recently starred in the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age.
Romano was born in Queens, New York, to Italian American parents: Lucie, a piano teacher, and Albert Romano (1925–March 2010), a real estate agent and an engineer. He grew up in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens. He has a brother named Richard A. Romano. Romano attended elementary and middle school at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills. After transferring from Archbishop Molloy High School, Romano graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1975. He was in the same high school class as Fran Drescher and later appeared on Drescher's sitcom, The Nanny, as an old classmate. Before getting into show business, Romano briefly attended Queens College, in Flushing, New York, where he studied accounting. Romano quit after gaining only 15 credits in three years, but he would later return, however, making it to the Dean's List for three years.
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Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born September 29, 1962) is an American musical theatre, film and television actor and singer. He has received Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Bart was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of a teacher and a chemical engineer, and grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey. His uncle is journalist Peter Bart. He made his Broadway debut in Big River as Tom Sawyer in 1987. Additional theatre credits include Jonathan in the Alan Menken/Tim Rice musical King David, Harlequin in Triumph of Love, Snoopy in the Broadway revival of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (for which he won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony), Carmen Ghia and later Leo Bloom in The Producers (earning Drama Desk and Tony nominations), and The Frogs at Lincoln Center, which reunited him with fellow Producers star Nathan Lane and Susan Stroman.
In 1996 and 1997, Bart appeared as Bud Frump in the U.S. national tour of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
On television, Bart played George Carlin's son on The George Carlin Show (1994), and on Bram and Alice (2002) he portrayed Bram's assistant Paul Newman. He became widely known to viewers with his portrayal of George Williams, the murderous pharmacist in love with Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross), on Desperate Housewives, which earned him a SAG Award.
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Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and producer.
She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. She played the same role in the 2008 feature film based on the show, Sex and the City: The Movie, and in its sequel, Sex and the City 2, which opened on May 26, 2010. Parker has also appeared in many other films.
Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker (née Keck), a nursery school operator and teacher, and Stephen Parker, an entrepreneur and journalist. She was one of a total of eight children from her parents' marriage and her mother's second marriage (her full siblings include actors Timothy Britten Parker and Pippin Parker). After her parents' divorce, her mother married Paul Forste, a truck driver and account executive who was a part of Parker's life from an early age. Parker's father, a native of Brooklyn, was of Eastern European Jewish background; his family's original surname was "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen"). Parker's mother was of English and German descent; through her mother, Parker is descended from Esther Elwell, one of the accused during the Salem witch trials. Parker has identified culturally and ethnically with her father's religion, Judaism, although she has had no religious training. She has said that even while her family lived in Cincinnati, her mother emulated a New York lifestyle.
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Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit (born November 26, 1965) is an American actor, writer and improvisational comedian. He is currently co-starring as Pete Hornberger in the hit NBC comedy 30 Rock and worked in the Adult Swim stop-motion animation programs Moral Orel and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole.
After attending Columbia College Chicago, Adsit joined the mainstage cast of Chicago's The Second City in 1994, where he appeared in several Jeff award-winning revues, including Pinata Full of Bees and Paradigm Lost for which he won The Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Comedy. A sketch he performed with future SNL head writer Adam McKay, "Gump," was included as one of Second City's all-time best in the theater's 25th anniversary compilation. He also appeared in the 1997 PBS documentary about the process of creating the multi-award winning Second City review, Paradigm Lost, Second to None along with castmates Tina Fey, Kevin Dorff, Rachel Dratch, Jenna Jolovitz and Jim Zulevic. Adsit also attended DePauw University in Indiana.
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Serinda Swan
Serinda Swan (born July 11, 1984) is a Canadian actress and humanitarian. She starred in the series Breakout Kings as Erica Reed until its cancellation.
Swan was born in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and lived briefly in Kauai, Hawaii.[citation needed]
She appeared twice on the television series Smallville (in the episodes "Hex" and "Warrior") as Zatanna Zatara, which is one of her most notable roles to date, as is her role of the pagan god Veritas in a season 6 episode of the TV series Supernatural. Swan began her big-screen acting career in 2009 in the rom-com The Break-Up Artist.
In 2008, Swan appeared in Theory of a Deadman's music video for their hit single, "So Happy."
From 2011 to 2012, Swan starred as Erica Reed in the A&E television series, Breakout Kings. She shared that many of the prison scenes of Breakout Kings are shot in actual prisons, while real convicts are also there behind bars.Breakout Kings was canceled on May 17, 2012.
Swan recently began working with anti-human trafficking group "Friends of Mankind", to fight sexual slavery in Cambodia.
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Steve Carell
Steven John "Steve" Carell ( /kəˈrɛl/; born August 16, 1962) is an American comedian, actor, voice artist, producer, writer, and director. Although Carell is notable for his role on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he found greater fame in the late 2000s for playing Michael Scott on The Office. He has also starred in lead roles in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss Sunshine, Evan Almighty, Dan in Real Life, Get Smart, Date Night, Dinner for Schmucks, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.; and voiced characters in the animated films Over the Hedge, Horton Hears a Who!, and Despicable Me. Carell was nominated as "America's funniest man" in Life magazine, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series for playing the lead role of Michael Scott for The Office in 2006.
Carell, the youngest of four brothers, was born at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, and was raised in nearby Acton by his parents, Harriet T. (née Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His maternal uncle, Stanley Koch, worked with Allen B. DuMont to create cathode ray tubes. Carell's paternal grandfather was Italian; his father was born with the surname "Caroselli", later shortening it to "Carell". Carell was raised Roman Catholic, and was educated at The Fenn School and Middlesex School. Carell also played ice hockey as a teenager for his high school.[citation needed] He played the fife, performing with other members of his family, and later joined a reenacting group portraying the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. Carell attributed his interest in history to this, in which he earned his degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1984. While at Denison, Carell was a member of Burpee's Seedy Theatrical Company, a student-run improvisational comedy troupe.
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Steven Culp
Steven Bradford Culp (born December 3, 1955) is an American film and television actor. His best known roles include Rex Van de Kamp on ABC's Desperate Housewives and Clayton Webb on JAG.
Culp was born in La Jolla, San Diego, California to a naval officer father. During his childhood, his parents divorced and his mother, Ohio-born Mary Ann Joseph, re-married John Raymond Grabinsky. Culp attended First Colonial High School in Virginia. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1978 with a major in English literature and also studied at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. He earned an MFA from Brandeis University in 1981.
Culp can be seen in one of his earliest roles as Robert Campbell in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993). He plays a reporter looking into the Jason murders. Culp is known for his recurring roles as CIA Agent Clayton Webb on JAG (1997–2004) and Major Hayes on Star Trek: Enterprise (2003–2004). He had the unusual misfortune to have both of those characters killed off in the same week, in the shows' season finales (though Webb turned up very much alive in the subsequent season premiere of JAG). During the year 2004, Steven became the first actor to appear as a recurring character in four television series simultaneously: The West Wing, Star Trek: Enterprise, JAG and ER.
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Teri Hatcher
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer, and presenter. She is known for her television roles as Susan Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and Lois Lane on the ABC comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. For her work on Desperate Housewives, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination.
Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (née Beshur), a computer programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin, and Owen Walker Hatcher, Jr., a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer. Her father is of Welsh descent (Hatcher has said that he also has Choctaw ancestry) and her mother is of half Syrian and half Bohemian (Czech)-Irish ancestry. Teri Hatcher took ballet lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in Los Altos. Her big debut was as the lead flying monkey in a production of The Wizard Of Oz.[citation needed] Hatcher grew up in Sunnyvale, California. and attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino. As an undergraduate she studied mathematics and engineering.
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Tia Mowry
Tia Dashon Mowry-Hardrict (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tia Landry on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister (opposite her identical twin sister Tamera Mowry). From 2006-2012, she portrayed medical student Melanie Barnett Davis on the former CW now BET comedy-drama series The Game. She is also notable for starring in the television movie Twitches and its sequel Twitches Too.
Tia Mowry was born in Gelnhausen, West Germany to Darlene Mowry (née Flowers), who managed her children's careers even when they were in the group Voices and also worked as a security guard, and Timothy Mowry, who was in the U.S. Army at the time of her birth and later became a custody officer/jailer with the City of Glendale Police Department when the family moved to California.
Darlene, who is Bahamian American, and Timothy, who is British American, met in high school in Miami, Florida. Both joined the U.S. Army, and both would eventually reach the rank of Sergeant. During a live taping of The Wendy Williams Show in 2010, Mowry announced that for years, she and her twin sister believed they were of Italian descent on their father's side; however, after researching their family tree on Ancestry.com, they quickly discovered that he was instead of British descent. Her family is "close-knit" and "deeply religious", as the sisters became born again Christians when they were eight.
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Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey ( /ˈfeɪ/; born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL), the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls (2004) and Baby Mama (2008).
Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co-anchor in the Weekend Update segment. In 2004 she adapted the screenplay Mean Girls in which she also co-starred. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at SNL. In the series, Fey portrays the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. In 2008, she starred in the comedy film Baby Mama, alongside former SNL co-star Amy Poehler. Fey next appeared in the 2010 comedy films Date Night and Megamind.
She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Writers Guild of America Awards and has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her autobiographical book Bossypants, which topped the The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks. She was singled out as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 by the Associated Press, which gave her its AP Entertainer of the Year award for her satirical portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a guest appearance on SNL. In 2010, Fey was the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the youngest-ever winner of the award.
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Tracy Morgan
Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American actor and comedian who is best known for his eight seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live as well as the role of Tracy Jordan on the NBC series 30 Rock.
Morgan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the second of five children of Alicia (née Warden), a homemaker, and James Morgan, Jr., a musician. Morgan says his father returned after multiple tours of duty in Vietnam addicted to heroin, causing him to leave the family when Morgan was six. He was the target of bullies as a child. His older brother had cerebral palsy and could not protect him so he used comedy to make bullies laugh rather than being beat up. Before Morgan began his career, he worked in New York City as a painter, for L&L Painting and Rose Company.
Morgan began his career on Martin, where he played Hustle Man. The character sold various items he had from the "hood," always greeting people with his trademark "What's happ'n, chief?" and had a pet dog that he dressed as a rapper. In the 2003 Chris Rock film Head of State, Morgan appeared as a man watching television, often questioning why they are not watching Martin.
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Brooks, Mehcad Filmography
- Rip the Runway '11 (2011)
- The Wolf (2011)
- Creature (2011)
- Just Wright (2010)
- After Iraq (2008)
- Fly Like Mercury (2008)
- In the Valley of Elah (2007)
- Glory Road (2006)
- The 3rd Annual Vibe Awards (2005)
- Tiger Cruise (2004)
- A Token for Your Thoughts (2003)
- Radimi: Who Stole the Dream (2002)
Famous quotes by Mehcad Brooks:
"You had to unlearn all the stuff you thought you knew about basketball in '04-'05, throw all that out the window and get back to basics. It was weird because it was almost like going to a camp for nine-year-olds."
"I'm from Texas, and my dad was from West Texas. As I was growing up, he'd tell me about the Miners and then he'd say that it just shows that you can do anything if you try hard enough."
"It's really impossible to put all five of them in the same scene, so it begins to look as if the producers are separating them for personal reasons when it really is all about the show."
"Desperate Housewives. They actually get along quite well. The whole rivalry thing is greatly exaggerated. They're a real team."
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Mehcad Brooks on Wendy Williams 9 23 10
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- Duration: 7:22
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Mehcad Brooks on Wendy Williams show September 23, 2010. No copyright infringement intended.
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Mehcad Brooks on Wendy Williams show September 23, 2010. No copyright infringement intended.
Mehcad Brooks.....Calvin Klein X Underwear 2010
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
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'True Blood' Star Heats Up 2nd Season of 'Necessary Roughness'
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- Duration: 6:05
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Mehcad Brooks discusses his new role on USA, and plays, "Kiss, Marry, Ditch" on "GAA."
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Mehcad Brooks discusses his new role on USA, and plays, "Kiss, Marry, Ditch" on "GAA."
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 616
- author: ABCNews
MEHCAD BROOKS RESPONDS TO MEDIATAKEOUT CALLING HIM "SWEET"!
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- Duration: 2:01
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Well, well, well, looky, looky....last night I spotted Mehcad Brooks [True Blood et al] outside of the Staple Center waiting on his date for the Jill Scott /Maxwell concert! Of course I had to ask him about the story Fred put out calling him gay for painting his fingernails black! Listen to his response!
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Well, well, well, looky, looky....last night I spotted Mehcad Brooks [True Blood et al] outside of the Staple Center waiting on his date for the Jill Scott /Maxwell concert! Of course I had to ask him about the story Fred put out calling him gay for painting his fingernails black! Listen to his response!
- published: 06 Jun 2010
- views: 23835
- author: BLACKARAZZI
Mehcad Brooks......Calvin Klein
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- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
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MEHCAD BROOKS: BEAUTY AND BRAINS!
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
We love young Black Hollywood. Mehcad Brooks (Desperate Housewives, The Game, et. al) stepped out in Hollywood last night at and we got the scoop on what's happening next in the chocolate heartthrob's life. Ladies, the man is beautiful, but he also has brains! Check 'em out.
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We love young Black Hollywood. Mehcad Brooks (Desperate Housewives, The Game, et. al) stepped out in Hollywood last night at and we got the scoop on what's happening next in the chocolate heartthrob's life. Ladies, the man is beautiful, but he also has brains! Check 'em out.
- published: 14 Oct 2008
- views: 32519
- author: BLACKARAZZI
Mehcad Brooks Says His Favorite Wide Receiver is Victor Cruz, Does the Dance!
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- Duration: 1:51
- Updated: 27 Oct 2012
blog.starcam.com?tag= Mehcad Brooks, from USA's "Necessary Roughness, chats with StarCam's Jennifer Tapiero at A Time for Heroes Celebrity Picnic about his crazy wide receiver character on the show and who his favorite wide receiver is. www.facebook.com twitter.com plus.google.com www.youtube.com
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blog.starcam.com?tag= Mehcad Brooks, from USA's "Necessary Roughness, chats with StarCam's Jennifer Tapiero at A Time for Heroes Celebrity Picnic about his crazy wide receiver character on the show and who his favorite wide receiver is. www.facebook.com twitter.com plus.google.com www.youtube.com
- published: 08 Jun 2012
- views: 699
- author: starcamcelebrities
Actor, Mehcad Brooks Opens Up About What He Wants In A Women!!!
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Actor, Mehcad Brooks Opens Up About What He Wants In A Women!!!
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Actor, Mehcad Brooks Opens Up About What He Wants In A Women!!!
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 620
- author: JustTheFab
Mr. Yummy Of The Week - Mehcad Brooks
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- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
Mehcad Brooks
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Mehcad Brooks and Eddie Murphy's Ex Tracy Edmond dating?
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- Duration: 1:14
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
www.facebook.com Brooks and Eddie Murphy's Ex Tracy Edmond dating?
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www.facebook.com Brooks and Eddie Murphy's Ex Tracy Edmond dating?
- published: 30 Dec 2012
- views: 38
- author: thegeniusmachine
What Type of Kid Was Mehcad Brooks?
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- Duration: 0:29
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
Mehcad Brooks reveals what type of kid he was growing up!
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Mehcad Brooks reveals what type of kid he was growing up!
- published: 14 Sep 2011
- views: 1823
- author: WendyWilliamsShow
Mehcad Brooks' Feet on True Blood
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- Duration: 0:24
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Mehcad Brooks' lying on bed with barefeet during episode 5 of the second season of HBO's 'True Blood'.
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Mehcad Brooks' lying on bed with barefeet during episode 5 of the second season of HBO's 'True Blood'.
- published: 21 Apr 2010
- views: 12093
- author: celebmalefeet
Making of - Mehcad Brooks - Calvin Klein X Underwear
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 08 Oct 2011
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Part 2 of Mehcad Brooks talking about going back to high school for 'My Generation'
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- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
An exclusive one-on-one with one of the hot young stars of ABC's new drama, 'My Generation,' Mehcad Brooks who has been called the "Miley Cyrus" of Austin. In this part of the interview, he talks about playing a jock-turned-soldier, palling around with other castmembers on and off-screen, as well as what the worst part about wearing a flashback wig is!
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An exclusive one-on-one with one of the hot young stars of ABC's new drama, 'My Generation,' Mehcad Brooks who has been called the "Miley Cyrus" of Austin. In this part of the interview, he talks about playing a jock-turned-soldier, palling around with other castmembers on and off-screen, as well as what the worst part about wearing a flashback wig is!
- published: 03 Aug 2010
- views: 3148
- author: Danielle Turchiano
Mehcad Brooks & Amalie Wichmann 2012 "Environmental Media Awards" Arrivals
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- Duration: 0:32
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
Subscribe bit.ly 2012 "Environmental Media Awards" PLAYLIST www.youtube.com www.maximotv.com Mehcad Brooks and Amalie Wichmann at "Environmental Media Awards presented by Toyota and Lexus" Green Carpet Arrivals at Warner Studios in Burbank, Ca USA September 29, 2012 About The Environmental Media Association The Environmental Media Association (EMA) is a Non-Profit 501(c)3 Organization founded in 1989 by Cindy and Alan Horn and Lyn and Norman Lear. EMA is dedicated to harnessing the power of celebrity and the media to promote sustainable lifestyles and believes through positive role modeling the entertainment community can inspire consumers to take action. The organization has grown into a diverse group of industry professionals from film, television and music dedicated to the mission of promoting environmental awareness through the entertainment business and the media. EMA serves as a valuable link between the entertainment industry and the environmental community. Visit us at online at www.ema-online.org and www.facebook.com ***Thisfootage is available for licensing*** The viewing of this clip by youtube visitors is only permissible for personal use; copying, commercial use, distribution, broadcast, downloading, additional use or transfer is expressly prohibited. Contact us for more information at www.maximotv.com for proper clearance for broadcast tv. ©Ricomix Productions - Maximo TV
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Subscribe bit.ly 2012 "Environmental Media Awards" PLAYLIST www.youtube.com www.maximotv.com Mehcad Brooks and Amalie Wichmann at "Environmental Media Awards presented by Toyota and Lexus" Green Carpet Arrivals at Warner Studios in Burbank, Ca USA September 29, 2012 About The Environmental Media Association The Environmental Media Association (EMA) is a Non-Profit 501(c)3 Organization founded in 1989 by Cindy and Alan Horn and Lyn and Norman Lear. EMA is dedicated to harnessing the power of celebrity and the media to promote sustainable lifestyles and believes through positive role modeling the entertainment community can inspire consumers to take action. The organization has grown into a diverse group of industry professionals from film, television and music dedicated to the mission of promoting environmental awareness through the entertainment business and the media. EMA serves as a valuable link between the entertainment industry and the environmental community. Visit us at online at www.ema-online.org and www.facebook.com ***Thisfootage is available for licensing*** The viewing of this clip by youtube visitors is only permissible for personal use; copying, commercial use, distribution, broadcast, downloading, additional use or transfer is expressly prohibited. Contact us for more information at www.maximotv.com for proper clearance for broadcast tv. ©Ricomix Productions - Maximo TV
- published: 30 Sep 2012
- views: 631
- author: maximotv
Calvin Klein X Underwear S/S 2010 Ad - Mehcad Brooks by Mikael Jansson
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- Duration: 0:17
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
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Mehcad Brooks and Serinda Swan in Creature
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- Duration: 1:59
- Updated: 09 Jul 2012
Here in Hollywood, it's no secret that many movie co-stars have a tendency to turn their hot onscreen romance into a sizzling reality. And for Mehcad Brooks and Serinda Swan, from the upcoming movie Creature, they are no exception to the rule. Good looking couple, Mehcad and Serinda, met on the set of their creepy flick, Creature, back in 2010 and with the film hitting theatres September 9th, the duo still remain inseparable. In the movie Brooks plays a NAVY Seal and fiancée to Swan who gets kidnapped by the jealous "Creature" who has its own intentions for the bride-to-be. Check out today's edition of the Hollywire Hot Minute, where our very own Chelsea Briggs breaks down the jucy details!
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Here in Hollywood, it's no secret that many movie co-stars have a tendency to turn their hot onscreen romance into a sizzling reality. And for Mehcad Brooks and Serinda Swan, from the upcoming movie Creature, they are no exception to the rule. Good looking couple, Mehcad and Serinda, met on the set of their creepy flick, Creature, back in 2010 and with the film hitting theatres September 9th, the duo still remain inseparable. In the movie Brooks plays a NAVY Seal and fiancée to Swan who gets kidnapped by the jealous "Creature" who has its own intentions for the bride-to-be. Check out today's edition of the Hollywire Hot Minute, where our very own Chelsea Briggs breaks down the jucy details!
- published: 19 Aug 2011
- views: 3032
- author: HollywireTV
Mehcad Brooks from True Blood & The Deep End
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- Duration: 0:13
- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
This is for my cousin. She loves her some Egg (True Blood name)...lol
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This is for my cousin. She loves her some Egg (True Blood name)...lol
- published: 17 Feb 2010
- views: 12438
- author: biggypauls
Mehcad Brooks arrives @ RAGE Launch Party in Los Angeles!
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- Duration: 0:39
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Mehcad gets ready for a rocking event!
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Mehcad Brooks aka Eggs from 'True Blood' talks about his time on the show
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- Duration: 1:06
- Updated: 27 Oct 2012
Mehcad Brooks aka 'Eggs' from HBO's "True Blood" talks briefly about his time on the show at the 2010 summer sessions of the Television Critics Association on August 1, 2010. Brooks will star in ABC's "My Generation" as Rolly Marks.
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Mehcad Brooks aka 'Eggs' from HBO's "True Blood" talks briefly about his time on the show at the 2010 summer sessions of the Television Critics Association on August 1, 2010. Brooks will star in ABC's "My Generation" as Rolly Marks.
- published: 01 Aug 2010
- views: 2055
- author: TheTVJunkieDotNet
Kayla Jones Loves Mehcad Brooks
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Dedicated to the man of my dreams Mehcad Brooks.A special tribute to him coming soon.
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Dedicated to the man of my dreams Mehcad Brooks.A special tribute to him coming soon.
- published: 03 Feb 2010
- views: 853
- author: THEKAYLAJONESSHOW
Making | Calvin Klein X Underwear S/S 2010 Ad - Mehcad Brooks by Mikael Jansson
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
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Elisabetta Canalis And Mehcad Brooks On A Date At The Roosevelt
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- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
lisabetta Canalis and her latest flame, former "True Blood" star Mehcad Brooks arrive to The Roosevelt Hotel, while Elisabetta's ex, George Clooney premieres his latest film, "The Descendants" nearby.
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lisabetta Canalis and her latest flame, former "True Blood" star Mehcad Brooks arrive to The Roosevelt Hotel, while Elisabetta's ex, George Clooney premieres his latest film, "The Descendants" nearby.
- published: 26 Nov 2012
- views: 63
- author: dacole manxr
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Creature
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- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
Lost and alone in the murky backwoods of Louisiana, a small group of friends find themselves being hunted by a monster of unspeakable horror and malevolence. Lurking beneath the depths of the swamp in which they have become ensnared, lies the Creature. Hiding beneath the shallows, it waits. Legend tells of an abomination, a creature that is half man, half alligator. A creature that feeds off human flesh, butchering its victims whilst they still breathe. As they venture further into its fetid lair, they must pray that the legend isn't true. Shocking and unrelentingly brutal, this blood drenched journey into hell also stars horror legend Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses). - A Revolver Entertainment Release 2012 A Revolver Entertainment Release 2012
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Lost and alone in the murky backwoods of Louisiana, a small group of friends find themselves being hunted by a monster of unspeakable horror and malevolence. Lurking beneath the depths of the swamp in which they have become ensnared, lies the Creature. Hiding beneath the shallows, it waits. Legend tells of an abomination, a creature that is half man, half alligator. A creature that feeds off human flesh, butchering its victims whilst they still breathe. As they venture further into its fetid lair, they must pray that the legend isn't true. Shocking and unrelentingly brutal, this blood drenched journey into hell also stars horror legend Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses). - A Revolver Entertainment Release 2012 A Revolver Entertainment Release 2012
- published: 07 Aug 2012
- author: RevolverOnDemand
Creature (2011) Movie Review
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- Duration: 21:17
- Updated: 16 Sep 2011
This movie wasn't a requested, but I wanted to take a look at it and check it out. Creature is a 2011 American horror film, based on a screenplay written by Fred M. Andrews and Tracy Morse. The film is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where a group of friends discover a local legend and are in a fight for their survival. The movie has an MPAA R-rating in the United States with a running time of 93 minutes, it is in Dolby Digital SRD and is also available as a digital cinema print (DCP). This film opened in theaters on September 9, 2011, in the United States and Canada. The film is directed by Fred M. Andrews and stars Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller, Dillon Casey, Lauren Schneider, Aaron Hill, Daniel Bernhardt, and Sid Haig. In its first weekend in the USA, Creature earned only $327000 from 1507 venues. At the time, this was the lowest grossing first weekend ever for a film appearing on over 1500 screens, and the second worst per location average ever.
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This movie wasn't a requested, but I wanted to take a look at it and check it out. Creature is a 2011 American horror film, based on a screenplay written by Fred M. Andrews and Tracy Morse. The film is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where a group of friends discover a local legend and are in a fight for their survival. The movie has an MPAA R-rating in the United States with a running time of 93 minutes, it is in Dolby Digital SRD and is also available as a digital cinema print (DCP). This film opened in theaters on September 9, 2011, in the United States and Canada. The film is directed by Fred M. Andrews and stars Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller, Dillon Casey, Lauren Schneider, Aaron Hill, Daniel Bernhardt, and Sid Haig. In its first weekend in the USA, Creature earned only $327000 from 1507 venues. At the time, this was the lowest grossing first weekend ever for a film appearing on over 1500 screens, and the second worst per location average ever.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 458
- author: ramboraph4life
My Dvd Collection Update 4/1/12 : Dvd and Blu-ray Movie Reviews
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Join our Message Board : donmurphboard1.proboards.com My Dvd Collection update where I talk about and review the dvds and blu-rays that Ive gotten over the past couple of weeks and give my review of them. • A Lonely Place to Die : Directed by Julian Gibey -- Starring Melissa George, Ed Speleers, Eamonn Walker, Sean Harris, Alec Newman, Karel Roden, Kate Magowan and Paul Anderson • The Sitter : Directed by David Gordon Green -- Starring Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, JB Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez and Kylie Bunbury • The Muppets : Directed by James Bobin -- Starring Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Alan Arkin, Bill Cobbs, Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong • South Park : The Complete 15th season -- Starring Matt Stone and Trey Parker • The Ring : (Best Buy Exclusive) : Directed by Gore Verbinski -- Starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brain Cox, Jane Alexander, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella and Daveigh Chase • The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 : Directed by Wes Craven -- Starring Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, John Bloom, Colleen Riley, Michael Berryman, Penny Johnson, Janus Blythe and John Laughlin • Battle Royale : Directed by Kinji Faukasaku -- Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Chiaki Kuriyama • Shaun of the dead : Directed by Edgar Wright -- Starring Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran and Keir Mills • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : Directed ...
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Join our Message Board : donmurphboard1.proboards.com My Dvd Collection update where I talk about and review the dvds and blu-rays that Ive gotten over the past couple of weeks and give my review of them. • A Lonely Place to Die : Directed by Julian Gibey -- Starring Melissa George, Ed Speleers, Eamonn Walker, Sean Harris, Alec Newman, Karel Roden, Kate Magowan and Paul Anderson • The Sitter : Directed by David Gordon Green -- Starring Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, JB Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez and Kylie Bunbury • The Muppets : Directed by James Bobin -- Starring Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Alan Arkin, Bill Cobbs, Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong • South Park : The Complete 15th season -- Starring Matt Stone and Trey Parker • The Ring : (Best Buy Exclusive) : Directed by Gore Verbinski -- Starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brain Cox, Jane Alexander, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella and Daveigh Chase • The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 : Directed by Wes Craven -- Starring Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, John Bloom, Colleen Riley, Michael Berryman, Penny Johnson, Janus Blythe and John Laughlin • Battle Royale : Directed by Kinji Faukasaku -- Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Chiaki Kuriyama • Shaun of the dead : Directed by Edgar Wright -- Starring Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran and Keir Mills • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : Directed ...
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Creature
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A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold moon to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans' bodies, obviously slaughtered by an archaic creature, awoken to new life. Now the creature is after them.
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A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold moon to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans' bodies, obviously slaughtered by an archaic creature, awoken to new life. Now the creature is after them.
- published: 24 Aug 2012
- author: godigital
Betty White on The Talk 2012/06/04
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- Duration: 37:54
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Betty White on The Talk (CBS) June 4, 2012 FULL EPISODE
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Betty White on The Talk (CBS) June 4, 2012 FULL EPISODE
- published: 30 Sep 2012
- views: 4506
- author: FleshEatinqUnicorn
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Creature
Lost and alone in the murky backwoods of Louisiana, a small group of friends find themselv...
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Creature
Lost and alone in the murky backwoods of Louisiana, a small group of friends find themselves being hunted by a monster of unspeakable horror and malevolence. Lurking beneath the depths of the swamp in which they have become ensnared, lies the Creature. Hiding beneath the shallows, it waits. Legend tells of an abomination, a creature that is half man, half alligator. A creature that feeds off human flesh, butchering its victims whilst they still breathe. As they venture further into its fetid lair, they must pray that the legend isn't true. Shocking and unrelentingly brutal, this blood drenched journey into hell also stars horror legend Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses). - A Revolver Entertainment Release 2012 A Revolver Entertainment Release 2012
- published: 07 Aug 2012
- author: RevolverOnDemand
21:17
Creature (2011) Movie Review
This movie wasn't a requested, but I wanted to take a look at it and check it out. Creatur...
published: 16 Sep 2011
author: ramboraph4life
Creature (2011) Movie Review
This movie wasn't a requested, but I wanted to take a look at it and check it out. Creature is a 2011 American horror film, based on a screenplay written by Fred M. Andrews and Tracy Morse. The film is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where a group of friends discover a local legend and are in a fight for their survival. The movie has an MPAA R-rating in the United States with a running time of 93 minutes, it is in Dolby Digital SRD and is also available as a digital cinema print (DCP). This film opened in theaters on September 9, 2011, in the United States and Canada. The film is directed by Fred M. Andrews and stars Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller, Dillon Casey, Lauren Schneider, Aaron Hill, Daniel Bernhardt, and Sid Haig. In its first weekend in the USA, Creature earned only $327000 from 1507 venues. At the time, this was the lowest grossing first weekend ever for a film appearing on over 1500 screens, and the second worst per location average ever.
- published: 16 Sep 2011
- views: 458
- author: ramboraph4life
21:33
My Dvd Collection Update 4/1/12 : Dvd and Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Join our Message Board : donmurphboard1.proboards.com My Dvd Collection update where I tal...
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My Dvd Collection Update 4/1/12 : Dvd and Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Join our Message Board : donmurphboard1.proboards.com My Dvd Collection update where I talk about and review the dvds and blu-rays that Ive gotten over the past couple of weeks and give my review of them. • A Lonely Place to Die : Directed by Julian Gibey -- Starring Melissa George, Ed Speleers, Eamonn Walker, Sean Harris, Alec Newman, Karel Roden, Kate Magowan and Paul Anderson • The Sitter : Directed by David Gordon Green -- Starring Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, JB Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez and Kylie Bunbury • The Muppets : Directed by James Bobin -- Starring Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Alan Arkin, Bill Cobbs, Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong • South Park : The Complete 15th season -- Starring Matt Stone and Trey Parker • The Ring : (Best Buy Exclusive) : Directed by Gore Verbinski -- Starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brain Cox, Jane Alexander, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella and Daveigh Chase • The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 : Directed by Wes Craven -- Starring Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, John Bloom, Colleen Riley, Michael Berryman, Penny Johnson, Janus Blythe and John Laughlin • Battle Royale : Directed by Kinji Faukasaku -- Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Chiaki Kuriyama • Shaun of the dead : Directed by Edgar Wright -- Starring Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran and Keir Mills • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : Directed ...
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 14836
- author: coolduder
94:24
Creature
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold moon to examine archaic artifacts of unknown o...
published: 24 Aug 2012
author: godigital
Creature
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold moon to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans' bodies, obviously slaughtered by an archaic creature, awoken to new life. Now the creature is after them.
- published: 24 Aug 2012
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Betty White on The Talk 2012/06/04
Betty White on The Talk (CBS) June 4, 2012 FULL EPISODE...
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Betty White on The Talk 2012/06/04
Betty White on The Talk (CBS) June 4, 2012 FULL EPISODE
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Calvin Klein Underwear - X Mark Your Spot
Calvin Klein Underwear launches online platform 'X Mark Your Spot' inviting men worldwide ...
published: 28 Aug 2010
author: F.TAPE
Calvin Klein Underwear - X Mark Your Spot
Calvin Klein Underwear launches online platform 'X Mark Your Spot' inviting men worldwide to film and upload their own videos via webcam, offering an insight into their world whilst wearing their favourite CK underwear.
'No set-up. No acting. No script. Just a guy, a webcam and his X.'
Inspired by the recent campaign starring Kellan Lutz, Mehcad Brooks, Fernando Verdasco and Hidetoshi Nakata, the platform also offers an exclusive augmented reality experience and of course the commercials themselves.
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Making of Calvin Klein X Underwear SS 2010 Ad
The making of the Calvin Klein X Underwear SS2010 campaign by Mikael Jasson featuring Mehc...
published: 16 Mar 2012
author: North Six
Making of Calvin Klein X Underwear SS 2010 Ad
The making of the Calvin Klein X Underwear SS2010 campaign by Mikael Jasson featuring Mehcad Brooks.
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Calvin Klein Fall 2010 Men's Collection
Bad boys from the future are strutting down the New York runways. Calvin Klein Fall 2010 M...
published: 17 Feb 2010
author: Style Wiz
Calvin Klein Fall 2010 Men's Collection
Bad boys from the future are strutting down the New York runways. Calvin Klein Fall 2010 Men’s Collection is definitely not your grandpa’s clothing. It’d be hard for someone to get between you and your Calvin’s when most of the techno fabrics were worn like a second skin.
Hollywood’s hottest were sitting front row – from Lee Pace, Jared Leto and Ryan Phillippe to the stars of the latest Calvin Klein underwear campaign – Kellan Lutz and Mehcad Brooks.
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Sharon Stone, & More at A Time for Heroes Celebrity Picnic
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StarCam's Jennifer Tapiero attends A Time for H...
published: 08 Jun 2012
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Sharon Stone, & More at A Time for Heroes Celebrity Picnic
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StarCam's Jennifer Tapiero attends A Time for Heroes Celebrity Picnic benefitting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and talks with Sharon Stone, Carmen Electra, Paul Michael Glaser and his son Jake Glaser, Mehcad Brooks, Max Schneider, Trevor Donovan, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Matt Leinart, Carlon Jeffery, and Kate Linder.
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10 Jan 2013
PARIS. Three Kurdish women, including one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, were "executed" at a Kurdish center in Paris, the interior minister said on Thursday. Turkey's Anadolu news agency identified one of the victims as Sakine Cansiz, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK ... He called it a "totally intolerable act." ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
photo: AP / Channi Anand
09 Jan 2013
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - India slammed arch-rival Pakistan on Wednesday over a fire fight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two of its soldiers were killed, and said the mutilation of one of the bodies was "inhuman". India's Defence Minister A.K. Antony waits to speak at a plenary session of the 11th International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit ... REUTERS/Tim Chong ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini
10 Jan 2013
Mexican has enacted a law that will ensure that the victims and relatives of crime are compensated with payments and social services from the state. The law, enacted by President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday, comprises the creation of a fund to pay relatives up to $70,000 in compensation for an innocent victim killed in attacks by drug gangs ... “There are thousands of people who have suffered the ravages of violence ... Share ... ....(size: 18.3Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
10 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Lay then, the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind." -Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man". If alive today, Thomas Paine would recognize that the United States Government is not worthy of its citizens ... He would caution the People ... Paine would also empathize with ... In another town, Paine would identify with ... (1) Paine, Thomas....(size: 4.8Kb)
photo: AP / NSW Rural Fire Service, James Morris
10 Jan 2013
Tammy Holmes, second from left, holds 2-year-old Charlotte Walker, left, and Esther Walker, 4, as they find refuge in water as fires rage nearby in Tasmania last week. Joining them were, from right, Caleb Walker, 6, Matilda Walker, 11, and Liam Walker, 9. Record temperatures across southern Australia cooled Wednesday, but the reprieve from the summer's extreme heat is expected to be brief. (Provided by the Holmes family) ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
The Hollywood Reporter
07 Jan 2013
share. The Callie Thorne drama has been picked up for 10 more episodes. USA. "Necessary Roughness". Necessary Roughness is coming back for a third season.our editor recommends. USA's 'Suits,' 'Necessary Roughness' and 'White Collar' Get Return Dates ... PHOTOS. Midseason 2013 ... Marc Blucas, Scott Cohen, Hannah Marks, Patrick Johnson and Mehcad Brooks co-star in the series, created/executive produced by Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro ... Twitter ... ....(size: 4.2Kb)
The Verge
14 Dec 2012
(Chris Bauer) helps (Ryan Kwanten) as struggles with his decision to kill Eggs The Big Bang Theory Season 6 Episode 11 (Mehcad Brooks) ... (Chris Bauer) helps (Ryan Kwanten) as struggles with his decision to kill Eggs The Big Bang Theory Season 6 Episode 11 (Mehcad Brooks) ... (Chris Bauer) helps (Ryan Kwanten) as struggles with his decision to kill Eggs The Big Bang Theory Season 6 Episode 11 (Mehcad Brooks)....(size: 4.4Kb)
The Examiner
27 Nov 2012
The Examiner
21 Nov 2012
Related topics. Hot Bodiesmatt bomerIan Somerhalder'The Vampire Diaries'Jensen AcklesPaul Wesley. Advertisement. Since Thanksgiving is right around the corner, now seems to be a good time to countdown the beautiful men and women that we’re thankful to have graced our television screens in 2012 ... 1. Matt Bomer, “White Collar”. 2. Ian Somerhalder, “The Vampire Diaries”. 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... 11 ... 12 ... 13 ... Mehcad Brooks, “Necessary Roughness” ... ....(size: 10.8Kb)
Huffington Post
17 Nov 2012
Allyson Felix may have accepted her honor as one of Glamour's Women of The Year this week, but she has also earned a spot as one of favorite fashionistas to watch. The Olympic gold medalist wore a black Vera Wang gown ... Loading Slideshow. Allyson Felix ... Cassie ... (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)Mehcad Brooks ... Actor Mehcad Brooks arrives at the GQ Men of the Year Party at Chateau Marmont on November 13, 2012 in Los Angeles, California ... ....(size: 8.4Kb)
Huffington Post
15 Nov 2012
GQ's annual Men Of The Year party took place in New York City last night with a host of Hollywood's most dashing stars in attendance. Jamie Foxx, Common, Big Sean, Kid Cudi and Frank Ocean were just a few of the dapper dudes that stepped out for the event ... And, let's not forget about the ladies ... Actor Mehcad Brooks arrives at the GQ Men of the Year Party at Chateau Marmont on November 13, 2012 in Los Angeles, California ... Like. 72k. ....(size: 11.4Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
14 Nov 2012
At one point in the evening we inexplicably found ourselves on the patio of the Chateau engaged in a pitched trivia-question battle with the charming Armie Hammer (Gucci suit, Ermenegildo Zegna tie, custom George Esquivel shoes on his size 15 feet), his wife Elizabeth Chambers (in a Gaultier dress and carrying an Armani clutch), and Mehcad Brooks ......(size: 31.3Kb)
PR Newswire
14 Nov 2012
. Michael J. Fox, Modern Family's Julie Bowen and Ziggy Marley Ask Americans to Support Just Label It Coalition's Call for Right to Know. Google. , Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emmy Award winners Michael J ... His comments sum up the argument JLI has been making throughout the country ... Bowen, a mother of three sons, shows her support for labeling by revealing a sign in the video with the message ... Mehcad Brooks, Actor ... ....(size: 5.5Kb)
The Miami Herald
12 Nov 2012
Scott Disick had dinner Wednesday at STK Miami with friends, including Nick Hogan. And while weâve put a moratorium on gratuitous sightings of Kardashian baby daddies, this one was too good to ignore ... Former True Blood actor Mehcad Brooks had dinner at STK on Friday with producer /songwriter Dallas Austin and five friends ... Cole is working with Perez on her next album. ....(size: 1.9Kb)
Scoop
02 Nov 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012, 5.09 pm. Press Release. UNITEC. US film acting coach Jeremiah Comey coming to NZ. Unitec to run Master Class by Comey in February 2013 ... He still recalls that 1993 visit as one of the highlights of his teaching career ... Background ... Comey's method has been studied by many actors such as Billy Zane, Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Rathbone, Adrian Paul, Mehcad Brooks, Armie Hammer and Kayla Ewell ... Testimonials ... Programme ... ENDS ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
The Examiner
01 Nov 2012
Related topics. CreatureSid HaigTy Bru Horror Film CriticMTTsBru's Halloween Marathon 2012. Rating for CREATURE. 2. Advertisement ... Video ... All in all, there were a few funny spots worth a watch for a laugh, mostly provided by Haig and then again when Mehcad Brooks character, Niles turns into a complete bad ass, it starts to get fun to watch as well, until the unbelievable sequences toward the closing ... Suggested by the author. ... Tweet ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)
Starpulse
25 Oct 2012
Happy Birthday to.. Pop Superstar Katy Perry (1984). R&B Singer Ciara (1985). Singer Josh Henderson (1981). Actor Mehcad Brooks (1980). British singer Bat for Lashes (1979) ... 2005) ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
Huffington Post
25 Oct 2012
By Bennett Marcus, Vanity Fair. The first-ever Paul Rudd All Star Bowling Benefit on Monday raised funds for Our Time, an organization that helps young people who stutter bolster their confidence and communication skills ... Still is." ... The benefit was designed so that celebrities like Mariska Hargitay, Mehcad Brooks, Fisher Stevens, Anthony Rapp, Rachel Dratch, and Eve Plumb each headed up a team of kids from Our Time ... Kissing Celebs ... Like....(size: 5.2Kb)
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| Mehcad Brooks | |
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| Born | Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks (1980-10-25) October 25, 1980 (age 31) Austin, Texas, US |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2002—present |
| Partner | Serinda Swan |
Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks (born October 25, 1980) is an American actor and former fashion model.
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Early life[link]
Brooks was born and raised in Austin, Texas, where he attended L.C. Anderson High School. After graduating from high school in 1999, he attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Brooks mentioned on a September 2010 episode of The Wendy Williams Show that he turned down basketball scholarships and offers from Ivy League schools in favor of going to USC. He then left to pursue an acting career.
Career[link]
Brooks' early work includes being a Calvin Klein underwear model.
From 2005 to 2006, Brooks played the role of Matthew Applewhite on the ABC TV drama Desperate Housewives. He appeared in Glory Road, portraying Harry Flournoy, an athlete at Texas Western University. He acted in the 2007 film In the Valley of Elah. He guest starred opposite Tia Mowry as her boyfriend, Jerome, on the TV series The Game in 2008. In 2009 he appeared on FOX's TV series Dollhouse. Brooks played Benedict "Eggs" Talley in the second season of HBO's True Blood. Beginning January 2010, he appeared as attorney Malcolm Bennet in the now-canceled ABC series The Deep End. He plays the "new boyfriend" in a recent State Farm Insurance television commercial alongside former The Game co-star Gabrielle Dennis.
Brooks appeared in the ABC documentary-style dramedy television series My Generation, which premiered in Fall 2010. The show was canceled after only two episodes.[1] He is among the cast on the USA Network series Necessary Roughness which debuted on June 29, 2011.[2] Brooks guest starred in the episode "Personal Fouls" of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Prince Miller, a basketball superstar who was once one of his coach's (Dan Lauria) prodigies, the coach under suspicion of being a sexual predator.2012 and a guest role on JJ Abrams new show 'Alcatraz'episode 6 as a bomb disposal expert.
In the media[link]
He appeared in July 2010 issue of GQ, alongside Emanuela de Paula.[3]
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Category | TV Show | Result |
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| 2006 | Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Desperate Housewives | Nominated |
| 2006 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Desperate Housewives | Won |
| 2007 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Desperate Housewives | Nominated |
| 2010 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | True Blood | Nominated |
Personal life[link]
He is the son of former NFL Wide Receiver Billy Brooks.
Brooks has stated in an interview with IGN that he is an avid player of video games, including the Call of Duty, Medal of Honor (series), and Madden series.[4]
Mehcad has been dating Breakout Kings actress Serinda Swan for several years. The couple starred in the 2011 film Creature and arrived at the film's premiere together.
His older brother, Billy Brooks Jr., is a regular on Spill.com's podcast Let's Do This!!!, where Billy is often made fun of for his preference of white women over black women, the fact that his oral hygiene is pristine, and is sometimes referred to by his nickname, "Uncle Popcorn."
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ "ABC Unveils 2010-11 Primetime Schedule". The Futon Critic. May 18, 2010. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2010/05/18/abc-unveils-2010-11-primetime-schedule/20100518abc01/. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
- ^ "Mehcad Brooks IMDB Profile". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1419635/. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- ^ http://www.gq.com/style/wear-it-now/201007/mehcad-brooks-gq-swimsuits#slide=2
- ^ John, Gaudiosi. "Necessary Roughness Star Mehcad Brooks Talks Games". Interview. IGN Entertainment. http://games.ign.com/articles/119/1194738p1.html. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
External links[link]
- Mehcad Brooks at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview at LIFETEEN.com
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| Name | Brooks, Mehcad |
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| Short description | American actor |
| Date of birth | October 25, 1980 |
| Place of birth | Austin, Texas, US |
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For other people named Eddie Murphy, see Eddie Murphy (disambiguation).
| Eddie Murphy | |
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 Murphy at the Tribeca Film Festival for Shrek Forever After in 2010. |
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| Birth name | Edward Regan Murphy |
| Born | (1961-04-03) April 3, 1961 (age 51) Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Medium | Film, television, stand-up, music, books |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, musical comedy, black comedy, satire, physical comedy, Dance Pop |
| Subject(s) | African American culture, race relations, racism, marriage, everyday life, current events, pop culture, human sexuality |
| Influences | Bill Cosby,[1] Richard Pryor,[1] Peter Sellers, Redd Foxx[1] Robin Williams,[1] |
| Spouse | Nicole Mitchell (1993–2006) (divorced) 5 children Tracey Edmonds (2008) (unofficial) |
| Domestic partner(s) | Melanie Brown (2006–07) 1 child |
| Notable works and roles | Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop Various on Saturday Night Live Shrek series |
Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.
Box office takes from Murphy's films make him the second-highest grossing actor in the United States.[2][3] He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.[4]
He has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls.[5]
Eddie Murphy's work as a voice actor includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek series and the dragon Mushu in Disney's Mulan. In some of his films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in Dr. Strangelove and elsewhere. Murphy has played multiple roles in Coming to America, Wes Craven's Vampire In Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films (where he played the title role in two incarnations, plus his father, brother, mother, and grandmother), Bowfinger, Norbit, and Meet Dave.
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Early life[link]
Murphy grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick.[6] His mother, Lillian, was a telephone operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy, was a transit police officer and an amateur actor and comedian.[1][7][8][9] His father died when he was young. When Murphy's single mom became ill, the eight-year-old Eddie Murphy and his older brother lived in foster care for one year.[10] In interviews, the actor and comedian says that his time in foster care was influential in developing his sense of humour. Later Murphy and his older brother Charlie were raised in Roosevelt, New York by his mother and stepfather Vernon Lynch, a foreman at an ice cream plant.[1] Around the age of 15, Murphy was writing and performing his own routines, which were heavily influenced by Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.[1]
Career[link]
Stand-up comedy[link]
Murphy performed stand-up at the same Bay Area Comedy Club as Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg. His early comedy was characterized by frequent swearing and sketches lampooning a diverse group of people (including WASPs, African Americans, Italian Americans, overweight people, and gay people). This racy content was akin to that of Richard Pryor, whom Murphy has credited as his inspiration to enter comedy;[1] however, in his autobiography, Pryor Convictions, Pryor wrote that he found Murphy's comedy at times excessively insensitive. Murphy later apologized for insensitive jokes about gay people and HIV. The stand-up shows Delirious and Raw have been recorded and released.
1980s acting career[link]
Murphy first earned attention as a regular actor at Saturday Night Live, and was credited with helping revitalize the series during its first true slump in quality in the early 1980s.[11] Some of his notable characters included a grown version of the Little Rascals character Buckwheat,[12] impoverished but street-wise children's show host Mr. Robinson (a spoof of Fred Rogers, who found it amusing),[13] and Gumby,[12] a harshly cynical version of the animated character; Murphy's take on the latter character spawned one of SNL's many catchphrases, "I'm Gumby, dammit!" Although Buckwheat was his most popular character, Murphy asked that he be retired because the actor grew tired of people asking him to "Do Buckwheat! Do Buckwheat!"; the character was assassinated on camera in front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.[14]
In 1982, Murphy made his big screen debut in the film 48 Hrs. with Nick Nolte.[1] 48 Hrs. proved to be a hit when it was released in the Christmas season of 1982. Nolte was scheduled to host the December 11, 1982 Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live, but became too ill to host, so Murphy took over. He became the only cast member to host while still a regular. Murphy opened the show with the phrase, "Live from New York, It's the Eddie Murphy Show!" The following year, Murphy starred in Trading Places with fellow SNL alumnus Dan Aykroyd.[1] The movie marked the first of Murphy's collaborations with director John Landis (who also directed Murphy in Coming to America and Beverly Hills Cop III) and proved to be an even greater box office success than 48 Hrs. In 1984, Murphy starred in the successful action comedy film Beverly Hills Cop.[1] The film was Murphy's first full-fledged starring vehicle, originally intended to star Sylvester Stallone (who later tweaked the script as his own starring vehicle Cobra in 1986).[1] Beverly Hills Cop grossed over $230 million at the box office and is 40th in the list of all-time total U.S. box office grosses (4th-highest amongst "R" rated films), after adjusting for inflation, as of March 2011[update].[15]
In 1984, Murphy appeared in Best Defense, co-starring Dudley Moore. Murphy, who was credited as a "Strategic Guest Star", was added to the film after an original version was completed but tested poorly with audiences. Best Defense was a major financial and critical disappointment. When he hosted SNL, Murphy joined the chorus of those bashing Best Defense, calling it "the worst movie in the history of everything". Murphy's Trading Places co-star Dan Aykroyd had originally written the character of Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters specifically for Murphy, but he was unable to commit at the time due to the Beverly Hills Cop shooting schedule. The part ultimately went to Ernie Hudson. Murphy was also offered a part in 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, a role that, after being heavily re-written from comic relief to love interest, ultimately went to future 7th Heaven star Catherine Hicks. By this point[16] Murphy's near-exclusive contract with Paramount Pictures rivaled Star Trek as Paramount's most lucrative franchise.
In 1986, Murphy starred in the supernatural comedy, The Golden Child.[1] The Golden Child was originally intended to be a serious adventure picture starring Mel Gibson. After Gibson turned the role down, the project was offered to Murphy as it was subsequently rewritten as a partial comedy. Although The Golden Child (featuring Murphy's "I want the knife!" routine) performed well at the box office, the movie was not as critically acclaimed as 48 Hrs., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop. The Golden Child was considered a change of pace for Murphy because of the supernatural setting as opposed to the more "street smart" settings of Murphy's previous efforts. A year later, Murphy reprised his role of Axel Foley in the Tony Scott-directed Beverly Hills Cop II. It was a box office success, grossing over $150 million. Producers reportedly wanted to turn the Beverly Hills Cop franchise into a weekly television series. Murphy declined the television offer, but was willing to do a film sequel instead.
Murphy was one of the last movie actors to sign an exclusive contract with a studio. In this case, it was Paramount Pictures, which released all of his early films.
Singing career[link]
Murphy is also a singer and musician, having frequently provided background vocals to songs released by The Bus Boys, which their song "The Boys Are Back in Town" was featured in 48 Hrs. and Murphy's comedy special Eddie Murphy Delirious. As a solo artist, Murphy had two hit singles, "Party All the Time" (which was produced by Rick James) and "Put Your Mouth on Me" in the mid-1980s (although he actually started singing earlier in his career, with the songs "Boogie In Your Butt" and "Enough Is Enough", the latter being a parody of Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer's 1979 song, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". They both appear on his 1982 self-titled comedy album.) "Party All the Time" was featured on Murphy's 1985 debut album How Could It Be, which included a minor follow-up R&B hit in the title track, a duet with vocalist Crystal Blake. This track was written by Rusty Hamilton and was produced by Stevie Wonder's cousin Aquil Fudge after a brief falling out and bet with Rick James. In 2004, VH-1 and Blender voted "Party All the Time" number seven among the "50 Worst Songs of All-Time." Sharam used a sample of the song for the UK #8 hit "PATT (Party All The Time)" in 2006.
Murphy recorded the album Love's Alright in the early 1990s. He performed in a music video of the single "Whatzupwitu", featuring Michael Jackson. He recorded a duet with Shabba Ranks called "I Was a King". In 1992, Murphy appeared in Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" alongside Magic Johnson and Iman.
Though uncredited, Murphy provided vocal work on SNL castmate Joe Piscopo's comedy single, "The Honeymooners Rap."[citation needed] Piscopo impersonated Jackie Gleason on the single, while Murphy provided an imitation of Art Carney.
In Coming to America, he imitated Jackie Wilson when he sang "To Be Loved", but because the character he was playing had a thick accent, he had to sing it in character. In later years, Murphy performed several songs in the Shrek film franchise. In the first film, he performed a version of "I'm a Believer" in the film's final scene; in Shrek 2 he performed Ricky Martin's hit "Livin' La Vida Loca" along with co-star Antonio Banderas.
Murphy's all-time favorite singer is Elvis Presley.
Early 1990s career[link]
From 1989 until the mid 1990s, box office results and reviews for Murphy's films dropped, hitting a low point with the critically panned Beverly Hills Cop III (1994),[17] a movie Murphy would ultimately denounce during an appearance on Inside the Actors Studio,[1] although he did find box office success with Boomerang and Another 48 Hrs. Harlem Nights featured Murphy, who had previously been known only as a performer, as director, producer, star, and co-writer, with his brother, Charlie Murphy, as well as supporting roles for Murphy's comic idols Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor.[1]
During this period Murphy was criticized by filmmaker Spike Lee for not using his show business stature to help black actors break into film, despite Murphy's films (especially those he produced) often being populated with predominantly black casts (Coming To America, Harlem Nights, Boomerang, Vampire In Brooklyn, Life). Many black actors who would later gain wider recognition make early appearances in Murphy films such as Damon Wayans in Beverly Hills Cop, Halle Berry and Martin Lawrence in Boomerang, Samuel L. Jackson and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Coming to America, Dave Chappelle in The Nutty Professor and Chris Rock in Beverly Hills Cop II.
Although Murphy has enjoyed commercial success since Saturday Night Live, he has never attended cast reunions or anniversary specials, nor did he participate in the making of the Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live retrospective book by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (2002).
Comeback and image makeover[link]
Murphy's box office results began to recover in 1996, starting with The Nutty Professor. He followed with a series of very successful family-friendly movies like Mulan, Dr. Dolittle and its sequel, the Shrek series, Daddy Day Care, and The Haunted Mansion, along with Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. However, most of his movies meant for more adult audiences performed moderately; Metro, I Spy, and Showtime all ended to gross less than $40 million domestically, Holy Man performed poorly, grossing less than $13 million, and The Adventures of Pluto Nash is on record as one of the biggest theatrical money-losers of all time, grossing just $7 million worldwide on a reported $110 million budget. A notable exception to this run of poorly received adult-themed films was the Frank Oz comedy Bowfinger, also starring Steve Martin. The film garnered generally positive critical reviews, and grossed $98 million at the box office.
In 2006, he starred in the motion picture version of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls as soul singer James "Thunder" Early. Murphy won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in that category. Several reviews for the film highlighted Murphy's performance while he received some pre-release Academy Awards buzz.[18] Murphy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on January 23, 2007, but lost to Alan Arkin for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine. Dreamgirls was the first film distributed by Paramount Pictures to star Murphy (who once was on an exclusive contract with the studio) since Vampire in Brooklyn in 1995.
In 2007, Murphy was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[19] As a result of Viacom's acquisition of Dreamworks SKG, Paramount distributed his other 2007 releases: Norbit and Shrek the Third. He starred in the 2008 film Meet Dave and the 2009 film Imagine That for Paramount Pictures.
Murphy co-starred in Tower Heist, directed by Brett Ratner. Murphy played a thief who joins a group of hardworking men who find out they have fallen victim to a wealthy businessman's Ponzi scheme, and conspire to rob his high-rise residence. Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, and Casey Affleck also starred in the film, released on November 4, 2011.[1][20][21]
It was reported in late 2011 that Murphy would host the 84th Academy Awards in 2012. However, he dropped out of his hosting duties on November 9, 2011, in the wake of the Brett Ratner scandal.[22]
Personal life[link]
Family[link]
Murphy began a longtime romantic relationship with Nicole Mitchell (born January 5, 1968) after meeting her in 1988 at an NAACP Image Awards show. They lived together for almost two years before getting married at the Grand Ballroom of The Plaza Hotel in New York City on March 18, 1993.[23] Murphy and Mitchell had five children together: Bria L. Murphy (born November 18, 1989), Myles Mitchell (born November 7, 1992), Shayne Audra (born October 10, 1994), Zola Ivy (born December 24, 1999) and Bella Zahra (born January 29, 2002). In August 2005, Mitchell filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences". The divorce was finalized on April 17, 2006.[24]
He also has a child by Tamara Hood: son Christian Murphy (born on 29 November 1990).[25]
Murphy as of 2008 resided in Long Island, New York.[26]
Following his divorce from Mitchell, in 2006, Murphy began dating former Spice Girl Melanie Brown, who became pregnant and stated that the child was Murphy's. When questioned about the pregnancy in December 2006 by RTL Boulevard, Murphy told Dutch reporter Matthijs Kleyn, "I don't know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test. You shouldn't jump to conclusions, sir". Brown gave birth to a baby girl, Angel Iris Murphy Brown, on Murphy's 46th birthday, April 3, 2007. On June 22, 2007, representatives for Brown announced in People that a DNA test had confirmed that Murphy was the father.[27] Brown has stated in an interview that Murphy has not sought a relationship with Angel.[28][29]
Murphy exchanged marriage vows with film producer Tracey Edmonds, former wife of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, on January 1, 2008, in a private ceremony on an island off Bora Bora.[30] On January 16, the couple released a statement saying, "After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further," and called the Bora Bora wedding a "symbolic union". The two had planned on having a legal ceremony upon their return to the U.S. but did not, and their wedding was never official.[31]
Legal problems[link]
According to Murphy's childhood friend Harris Haith in his book, Growing Up Laughing With Eddie, long before Murphy did any writing for Coming to America, Art Buchwald had approached Paramount Pictures with the idea for a similar film. His material was rejected, but the information was retained by Paramount. They liked Buchwald's idea but did not see fit to pay him and saved it for use later down the road. Some years later, Paramount presented the idea of Coming to America to Eddie and gave him the contract. Murphy wrote a screenplay that came to light exactly as it aired on the silver screen. In 1988, Buchwald sued Murphy and Paramount Pictures, but Murphy was not found liable because Paramount had received the material.
Philanthropy[link]
Murphy has donated money to the AIDS Foundation, and cancer, education, creative arts, family/parent support, health and homeless charities. He has donated to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, various cancer charities and $100,000 to the Screen Actors' Guild's strike relief fund.[32]
Filmography[link]
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1982 | 48 Hrs. | Reggie Hammond | Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor |
| 1983 | Trading Places | Billy Ray Valentine | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1983 | Eddie Murphy Delirious | Himself | Also Producer |
| 1984 | Best Defense | Lieutenant T.M. Landry | |
| Beverly Hills Cop | Det. Axel Foley | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | |
| 1986 | The Golden Child | Chandler Jarrell | |
| 1987 | Beverly Hills Cop II | Det. Axel Foley | |
| Eddie Murphy Raw | Himself | Also Producer | |
| 1988 | Coming to America | Prince Akeem/Clarence/Randy Watson/Saul | |
| 1989 | Harlem Nights | Quick (real name Vernest Brown) | Also Director and Writer |
| 1990 | Another 48 Hrs. | Reggie Hammond | |
| 1992 | Boomerang | Marcus Graham | Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance |
| The Distinguished Gentleman | Thomas Jefferson Johnson | ||
| 1994 | Beverly Hills Cop III | Det. Axel Foley | |
| 1995 | Vampire in Brooklyn | Maximillian/Preacher Pauly/Guido | Also Producer |
| 1996 | The Nutty Professor | Professor Sherman Klump/Buddy Love/ Lance Perkins/Cletus 'Papa' Klump/ Anna Pearl 'Mama' Jensen Klump/ Ida Mae 'Granny' Jensen/Ernie Klump, Sr. |
Also Producer Saturn Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1997 | Metro | Insp. Scott Roper | |
| 1998 | Mulan | Mushu | (voice) |
| Dr. Dolittle | Dr. John Dolittle | ||
| Holy Man | G | ||
| 1999 | Life | Rayford "Ray" Gibson | Also Producer |
| Bowfinger | Kit Ramsey/Jeffernson 'Jiff' Ramsey | Black Reel Award: Best Actor | |
| 2000 | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | Professor Sherman Klump/Buddy Love/ Lance Perkins/Cletus 'Papa' Klump/ Anna Pearl 'Mama' Jensen Klump/ Ida Mae 'Granny' Jensen/Ernie Klump |
Also Producer Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 2001 | Shrek | Donkey | (voice) Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated – Black Reel Award: Best Supporting Actor |
| Dr. Dolittle 2 | Dr. John Dolittle | ||
| 2002 | Showtime | Officer Trey Sellers | Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actor Nomianted - Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with either Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson or himself cloned) |
| The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Pluto Nash/Rex Crater | ||
| I Spy | Kelly Robinson | ||
| 2003 | Daddy Day Care | Charles "Charlie" Hinton | |
| The Haunted Mansion | Jim Evers | ||
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Donkey | (voice) |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | James 'Thunder' Early | Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Central Ohio Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Black Reel Award: Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2007 | Norbit | Norbit Rice/Rasputia Latimore-Rice/Mr. Wong | Razzie Award for Worst Actor (as Norbit) Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor (as Mr. Wong) Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress (as Rasputia) Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (with either Eddie Murphy or Eddie Murphy) Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Screenplay Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Picture |
| Shrek the Third | Donkey | (voice) Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie |
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| 2008 | Meet Dave | Starship Dave Ming-Chang (Spacecraft), Captain | Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Actor Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (in Eddie Murphy) |
| 2009 | Imagine That | Evan Danielson | |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | Donkey | (voice) Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie |
| 2011 | Tower Heist | Darnell ("Slide") | |
| 2012 | A Thousand Words | Jack McCall | |
Television[link]
| Television | |||
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980–1984 | Saturday Night Live | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Variety or Music Series (1983) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (1984) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program (1984) |
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| 1983 | Eddie Murphy: Delirious | ||
| 1989 | What's Alan Watching? | ||
| 1993 | Dangerous - The Short Films | Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh | Remember the Time music video |
| 1999–2001 | The PJs | Thurgood Stubbs | Voice Nominated – Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production (1999) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) (1999) |
| 2004 | Father of the Pride | Donkey | Voice |
| 2007 | Shrek the Halls | Donkey | TV special Voice Nominated – Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production |
| 2010 | Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular | Donkey | TV special Voice |
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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| 1983 | Comedian
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35 | 10 | ||||||
| 1985 | How Could It Be
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| 1989 | So Happy
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70 | 22 | ||||||
| 1993 | Love's Alright
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Compilation albums[link]
| Year | Album details |
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| 1997 | Greatest Comedy Hits
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| 1998 | All I Fuckin' Know
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Singles[link]
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| US [35] |
US R&B [36] |
US Dance [37] |
NZ [38] |
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| 1982 | "Boogie in Your Butt" | — | 56 | — | — | — | Eddie Murphy | ||
| 1985 | "Party All the Time" | 2 | 8 | 19 | 3 | 87 | How Could It Be | ||
| "How Could It Be" (with Crystal Blake) | — | 63 | — | — | — | ||||
| 1989 | "Put Your Mouth on Me" | 27 | 2 | — | — | — | So Happy | ||
| "Til the Money's Gone" | — | 75 | — | — | — | ||||
| 1993 | "I Was a King" | — | 61 | — | — | 64 | Love's Alright | ||
| "Whatzupwitu" (with Michael Jackson) | — | 74 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Desdamona" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Awards/nominations[link]
| Award | Year | Category | Work | Outcome |
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| Academy Awards | 2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Dreamgirls | Nominated |
| Annie Awards | 1999 | Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production | The PJs | Nominated |
| 2001 | Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production | Shrek | Won | |
| 2008 | Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production | Shrek the Halls | Nominated | |
| BAFTA Awards | 2002 | Actor in a Supporting Role | Shrek | Nominated |
| Black Reel Awards | 2000 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture | Bowfinger | Nominated |
| 2002 | Actor in a Supporting Role | Shrek | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Dreamgirls | Nominated | ||
| Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | 2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Dreamgirls | Won |
| Central Ohio Film Critics Association | 2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Dreamgirls | Won |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | 2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Dreamgirls | Nominated |
| Emmy Awards | 1983 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Variety or Music Series | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |
| 1984 | Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program | Saturday Night Live | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program | Saturday Night Live | Nominated | ||
| 1999 | Outstanding Animated Program – Less Than One Hour | The PJs "He's Gotta Have It" |
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| Golden Globe Awards | 1983 | New Star of the Year (Actor) | 48 Hrs. | Nominated |
| 1984 | Actor in a Leading Role (Musical or Comedy) | Trading Places | ||
| 1997 | Actor in a Leading Role (Musical or Comedy) | The Nutty Professor | ||
| 1985 | Actor in a Leading Role (Musical or Comedy) | Beverly Hills Cop | ||
| 2007 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Dreamgirls | Won | |
| Kids Choice Awards | 1988 | Favorite Movie Actor | Beverly Hills Cop II | Won |
| 2005 | Favorite Voice from an Animated Film | Shrek 2 | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Favorite Voice from an Animated Film | Shrek the Third | Won | |
| 2011 | Best Voice from an Animated Film | Shrek Forever After | Won | |
| NAACP Image Awards | 1997 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture | The Nutty Professor | Nominated |
| 2007 | Actor in a Supporting Role | Dreamgirls | Nominated | |
| National Society of Film Critics Awards | 1997 | Best Actor | The Nutty Professor | Won |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | 2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Dreamgirls | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 1996 | Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | The Nutty Professor | Nominated |
| 2001 | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | |||
| Saturn Awards | 1997 | Best Actor | The Nutty Professor | Won |
| 2002 | Best Supporting Actor | Shrek | Nominated | |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2007 | Actor in a Supporting Role | Dreamgirls | Won |
| Cast in a Motion Picture | Nominated |
References[link]
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- ^ "People Index". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/?view=Actor&sort=sumgross&p=.htm. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ^ "Comedy Central 100 Greatest Standups of all Time". Listology. May 19, 2005. http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.18481. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ^ Kilday, Gregg (December 14, 2006). "'Dreamgirls' Snares Multiple Golden Globe Nods". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003521765.
- ^ Lovece, Frank. "'Beverly Hills Cop 3 – Eddie Murphy Is Back", Calhoun Times, June 1, 1994. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
- ^ Flippo, Chet (11 October 1982). "Eddie Murphy Live: The razor-edged king of late night comedy". New York Magazine. http://books.google.com/books?id=j-ICAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA56&dq=eddie%20murphy%20new%20york%20magazine%20oct.%2011%201982&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
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- ^ "Saturday Night Live Backstage". 2011-02-20. NBC.
- ^ "All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation". Boxofficemojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ^ according to the autobiography of the film's director and co-star, Leonard Nimoy.
- ^ "Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994)". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beverly_hills_cop_3/.
- ^ Modderno, Craig (December 3, 2006). "Eddie Murphy Inspires Oscar Buzz. Seriously.". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/movies/03modd.html?_r=1&ref%3Dmovies&oref=slogin.
- ^ "abc7.com: Film Academy Invites 115 New Members 6/19/07". Abclocal.go.com. June 19, 2007. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=entertainment&id=5400194. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ^ "Eddie cops film No4". London: Sun Online. May 17, 2007. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006200093,00.html.
- ^ "‘Tower Heist’ continues filming at Trump International Hotel & Tower". http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2010/11/16/tower-heist-continues-filming-at-trump-international-hotel-tower.
- ^ "The Mud Doctor: Oscar Update: Eddie Murphy Drops Out of Hosting Gig". Themuddoctor.blogspot.com. 2011-11-09. http://themuddoctor.blogspot.com/2011/11/oscar-update-eddie-murphy-drops-out-of.html. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ^ "Eddie Murphy and wife divorce after 12 years". Hello!Magazine. August 8, 2005. http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2005/08/08/eddiemurphy/.
- ^ "Eddie Murphy and Nicole Mitchell Marriage". About.com. http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/eddiemurphy.htm.
- ^ "Eddie Murphy". http://www.nndb.com/people/544/000022478/.
- ^ "Eddie Murphy Bowling Bashes". November 10, 2008. http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?Eddie_Murphys_bowling_bashes&in_article_id=394657&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
- ^ "Mel B Says DNA Proves Eddie Murphy Fathered Her Baby". People Magazine. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20043487,00.html.
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- ^ "Eddie Murphy hasn't had a drink in 18 years". AZCentral.com. November 3, 2011. http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2011/11/03/20111103eddie-murphy-hasnt-had-drink-18-years.html. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
- ^ Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds Marry – Weddings, Eddie Murphy : People.com.
- ^ "Eddie Murphy, Tracey Edmonds break up: Couple held non-binding wedding ceremony in Bora Bora on New Year's Day". Access Hollywood via MSNBC. January 16, 2008. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22689574/ns/today-entertainment/t/eddie-murphy-tracey-edmonds-break/#.Tq8KtnHaI7A.
- ^ "Eddie Murphy's Charity Work". Looktothestars.org. http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/194-eddie-murphy. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ^ "Eddie Murphy Album & Song Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/eddie-murphy/chart-history/1173?f=305&g=Albums. Retrieved October 3, 210.
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- ^ "Eddie Murphy Album & Song Chart History – Hot 100". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/eddie-murphy/chart-history/1173. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
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- ^ "Eddie Murphy Album & Song Chart History – Dance/Club Songs". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/eddie-murphy/chart-history/1173?f=359&g=Singles. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ^ "charts.org.nz – New Zealand charts portal". charts.org.nz. http://www.charts.org.nz/search.asp?search=eddie+murphy&cat=s. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
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- Eddie Murphy at the Internet Movie Database
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- Eddie Murphy on Discogs
- Maxim Rated Top SNL performer
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MTV Movie Awards host 1993 |
Succeeded by Will Smith |
| Preceded by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler |
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| Date of birth | April 3, 1961 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
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Mikael Jansson (born 4 September 1965, Umeå, Västerbotten) is a former leader of the Swedish political party Sweden Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna). He served as party leader between 1995 and 2005. He was replaced by Jimmie Åkesson.
Bibliography[link]
- I eget spår genom obruten terräng (2005).
External links[link]
- (Swedish) Official personal website
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| Serinda Swan | |
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| Born | (1984-07-11) July 11, 1984 (age 27) West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Partner | Mehcad Brooks |
Serinda Swan (born July 11, 1984) is a Canadian actress and humanitarian.[1] She starred in the series Breakout Kings as Erica Reed until its cancellation.[2]
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Life and career[link]
Swan was born in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and lived briefly in Kauai, Hawaii.[citation needed]
She appeared twice on the television series Smallville (in the episodes "Hex" and "Warrior") as Zatanna Zatara,[3] which is one of her most notable roles to date, as is her role of the pagan god Veritas in a season 6 episode of the TV series Supernatural. Swan began her big-screen acting career in 2009 in the rom-com The Break-Up Artist.
In 2008, Swan appeared in Theory of a Deadman's music video for their hit single, "So Happy."[4]
From 2011 to 2012, Swan starred as Erica Reed in the A&E television series, Breakout Kings. She shared that many of the prison scenes of Breakout Kings are shot in actual prisons, while real convicts are also there behind bars.[5] Breakout Kings was canceled on May 17, 2012.[2]
Swan recently began working with anti-human trafficking group "Friends of Mankind", to fight sexual slavery in Cambodia.[5][1]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Production | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Neal 'n' Nikki | Amanda | Bollywood movie |
| 2009 | The Break-Up Artist | Ashley | |
| 2010 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Aphrodite | |
| 2010 | Tron: Legacy | Siren #2 | |
| 2011 | Recoil | Darcey | |
| 2011 | Creature | Emily | |
| 2011 | Jinn | Jasmine | Main role |
| 2012 | The Baytown Disco | Jez | post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Supernatural | Hospital Receptionist | Episode "Salvation" |
| 2007 | Blood Ties | Henry's hookup (credited as "Pretty Young Woman") | Episode "Heart of Ice" |
| 2007 | Exes and Ohs | Lucianne | Episode "What Goes Around |
| 2008 | Beyond Loch Ness | Caroleena | TV Movie |
| 2008 | Psych | Eileen Mazwell | Episode "Murder?...Anyone?...Anyone?...Bueller?" |
| 2009 | Desperate Escape | Melissa | TV Movie |
| 2009 | Reaper | Hot Patron | Episode "Business Casualty" |
| 2010 | Supernatural | Ashley Frank/Veritas | Episode "You Can't Handle the Truth" |
| 2009 | Hostile Makeover | Amanda Manville | TV Movie |
| 2009 | Trust | Tiffany | TV movie |
| 2009–10 | Smallville | Zatara, ZatannaZatanna Zatara | Episodes "Hex" (Season 8, Episode 17) and "Warrior" (Season 9, Episode 12) |
| 2011 | Hawaii Five-0 | Alana | Episode "Ho'ohuli Na'au" (Season 1, Episode 22) |
| 2011–2012[2] | Breakout Kings | Erica Reed | Main Role |
References[link]
- ^ a b "Serinda Swan". http://www.friendstomankind.org/serinda/. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ a b c ANDREEVA, NELLIE (May 17, 2012). "A&E’s ‘Breakout Kings’ Cancelled After Two Seasons". Deadline. http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/aes-breakout-kings-cancelled-after-two-seasons/. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ Matt Mitovich (2009). "Exclusive: Who Will Make Magic as Smallville's Zatanna?". http://www.tvguide.com/News/Smallville-casting-news-1001973.aspx. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
- ^ Theory Of A Deadman - So Happy on YouTube
- ^ a b "Serinda Swan Urban Rush Interview". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxjzhzy-wQ&list=UUCfMktpDE2UZdEzvtU_NQiQ&index=20&feature=plcp. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
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| Elisabetta Canalis | |
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.jpg) Canalis at the 2009 Venice Film Festival |
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| Born | (1978-09-12) 12 September 1978 (age 33) Sassari, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress, television presenter, model |
| Website | |
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Elisabetta Canalis (Italian pronunciation: [elizaˈbetta kaˈnaːlis]) (born 12 September 1978) is an Italian actress.
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Career[link]
She was a showgirl on the popular Italian show Striscia la Notizia on Italian TV Canale 5 from 1999 to 2002. Canalis had minor roles in the films Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo[1] and Virgin Territory. [2] In 2005, she replaced Michelle Hunziker in Love Bugs 2, the second season of the sit-com Love Bugs.[3] In 2007, she co-hosted the annual Italian music festival, Festivalbar.[4] In 2009, she replaced Elena Santarelli on the Italian version of Total Request Live, on MTV Italia.[5] Elisabetta hosted the Trofeo Birra Moretti 2008,[6] a summer football competition played between S.S.C. Napoli, A.C. Milan and Juventus.
In 2010, she played a recurring character in season 3 of the TNT series Leverage.[7]
In February 2011, she successfully co-hosted the most Important Italian song contest, Sanremo Music Festival Sanremo Music Festival with Gianni Morandi and Belen Rodriguez.[8] She intervested in the Festival Robert de Niro; The actor says also a funny "Ti amo" to Elisabetta.[9]
Canalis appeared on the 13th season of Dancing with the Stars.[10] She was paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy and was the second to be eliminated on 27 September 2011. She was interviewed on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show in September 2011.[11] She posed nude for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur" campaign in 2011.[12]
She co-hosted for the second time the Sanremo Music Festival 2012 and acts with the singer Adriano Celentano in the role of "Italia".[13]
Modeling career[link]
After models like Cindy Crawford she featured in the 2003 Max calendar.[14]
She has been testimonial and runway model from 2006 to 2009 for the fashion brand "Hollywood Milano".[15]
After the first lady Carla Bruni she is the 2011 Lancia's testimonial; she promoted in a spot recorded in New York the new city limousine Musa "5th Avenue". [16]
In June 2011: She appeared in a photoshoot of the Spanish version of Vogue,[17] and in September 2011 in the Arabian version of Harper's Bazaar.[18] She is model and testimonial in the same year for the underwear of Roberto Cavalli. Elisabetta is June's cover girl for the third time on Vanity Fair[19]. In the same year, she is, for Vanity Fair, the 4th woman most beautiful in the world. [20]. She has been also on 2010 the 7th most beautiful woman for Maxim and in top 50 for DT Spain magazine.[21]
Since 2012, she is the new spokesmodel for Pantene.[22] In The Netherlands, she is a spokes person for Auping.[23]
Personal life[link]
Elisabetta's father worked in University of Sassari's clinic and her mother was an Italian teacher.[24] She has a brother named Luigi.[25] She was educated in Sassari, where she attended the classical gymnasium, and then moved to Milan to study foreign languages at “Università degli Studi di Milano”, though she never graduated because she started to work at the age of 21.[26]
She dated American actor George Clooney for almost 18 months. The couple split in June 2011.[27]
Cinema[link]
- 2005 - Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
- 2006 - Natale a New York
- 2007 - Virgin Territory
- 2008 - La seconda volta non si scorda mai
- 2008 - La fidanzata di papà
- 2010 - A Natale mi sposo
Television[link]
- 1999/2002 - Striscia la Notizia - Canale 5
- 2003/2004 - Carabinieri 3 - 4, TV series - Canale 5
- 2003-2005 - Controcampo , TV Series, cohosted with Sandro Piccinini
- 2005 - Love Bugs 2, Sit-com - Italia 1
- 2007 - Artù - Rai 2
- 2007 - Mai dire martedì - Italia 1
- 2007 - Festivalbar - Italia 1
- 2008 - Medici miei, Sit-com - Italia 1
- 2009 - Total Request Live - MTV
- 2010 - Fratelli Benvenuti, TV series - Canale 5/Rete 4
- 2010 - Leverage - TV series
- 2010 - Che tempo che fa - Rai 3
- 2011 - Festival di Sanremo - Rai Uno
- 2011 - La notte degli chef - Canale 5
- 2011 - Dancing with the Stars - TV series
- 2011 - The Ellen DeGeneres Show [11]
- 2012 - Festival di Sanremo - Rai Uno
References[link]
- ^ "Canalis: per gelosia ho rigato l'auto a Bobo.". corriere.it. http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Spettacoli/2006/02_Febbraio/27/canalis.shtml. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ "Elisabetta Canalis sensuale in Decameron Pie". http://www.qnm.it. http://www.qnm.it/articolo/elisabetta_canalis_sexy_in_decameron_pie.html. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ http://cinema-tv.corriere.it/personaggi/fabio-de-luigi/02_62_66.shtml
- ^ "Canalis festivalbar". vogue.it. http://www.festivalbar.it/conduttori/scheda.php?id=17. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ "Total Request Live, Mtv a Torino con Elisabetta Canalis sul palco". lastampa.it. http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/torinosette/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=132&ID_articolo=652. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ javascript:pgLoader.launch('/fotogallery/5556.json')
- ^ "Exclusive Advance Review: Leverage Season 3". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/exclusive-advance-review-leverage-season-3/webnews/87635.html. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
- ^ (Italian)"Festival di Sanremo, ok a Morandi. Ci saranno anche Belen ed Elisabetta". Corriere della Sera (Italy): p. 41. 5 10 2010. http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/10_ottobre_05/morandi-stop-trattativa-sanremo-rai_c3a0c644-d098-11df-9b01-00144f02aabc.shtml. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ http://blog.panorama.it/culturaesocieta/2011/02/19/sanremo-2011-la-quarta-serata-in-trenta-foto/sanremo-quarta-serata-deniro-canalis-tiamo/
- ^ "Canalis nel casting di dancing with the stars". http://video.corriere.it/canalis-casting-dancing-with-the-stars/bcb3dd38-d300-11e0-874f-4dd2e67056a6. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ a b "Elisabetta Chats with Ellen" Ellen web site, September 23, 2011
- ^ Sarah Bull, "Feeling Modest? Elisabetta Canalis Covers Up in A Demure But Sexy Dress as She Unveils Naked PETA Campaign," The Daily Mail 14 September 2011.
- ^ "Debutta il Festival, Celentano attacca Avvenire e Famiglia Cristiana" IL Sole24ore.com (in Italian)
- ^ "Canalis per max". max.rcs.it. http://max.rcs.it/multimedia/calendari/foto/0806_calendario_canalis_gallery/1.action. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ http://gossip.it/mondanita/ana_laura_ribas_fotorw.html?id=30a682286a0b27f07e2185dab5d094b9&num=1
- ^ http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/multimedia/curiosita/elisabetta-canalis-batte-carla-bruni/28201874/1/38?speciale=cannes
- ^ "Elisabetta Canalis "soft hot" per Vogue Spagna". tgcom24.mediaset.it. http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/gossip/articoli/1011466/elisabetta-canalis-soft-hot-per-vogue-spagna.shtml. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ "Gossip/ Elisabetta Canalis su Harper's Bazaar Arabia". http://tg.la7.it/spe/news-29544. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ^ http://www.style.it/vanitypeople/spy/little-italy/2010/08/03/elisabetta-canalis-non-mi-perdonano-di-essere-felice.aspx
- ^ http://www.vanityfair.it/people/mondo/2011/12-mese/04/100-donne-sexy-2011-vanity-fair-sexiest-women
- ^ http://pairody.com/tag/dt-magazine/
- ^ "Elisabetta Canalis: nuova testimonial Pantene" (in Italian) Elle Italy web site
- ^ "Elisabetta Canalis scaricata per un materasso" (in Italian) GQ Italy, 15 March 2012
- ^ "Elisabetta Canalis Brings George Clooney Home to the Folks". People. 18 September 2010. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20427356,00.html. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
- ^ Alison Schwartz (22 June 2011). "Elisabetta Canalis Tries Retail Therapy After George Clooney Breakup". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20504560,00.html. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
- ^ "About Me" section of official web site
- ^ Canalis, Elisabetta. "George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis Split". http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/george-clooney-elisabetta-canalis-split-2011226. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
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