Soleil Moon Frye
Soleil Moon Frye at the Consumer Electronics Show
Born	(1976-08-06) August 6, 1976 (age 35) Glendora, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director, screenwriter
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Jason Goldberg (m. 1998) «start: (1998)»"Marriage: Jason Goldberg to Soleil Moon Frye" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Soleil_Moon_Frye)
Website
www.moonfrye.com

Soleil Moon Frye ( /soʊˈleɪ/; born August 6, 1976) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. Frye is best known for her childhood role as the title character in sitcom Punky Brewster, and as Roxie King in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

Early life[link]

Frye was born in Glendora, California. Her father is actor Virgil Frye, and her mother is talent agent Sondra Peluce Londy.^[1] She has two half-brothers, Sean Frye and Meeno Peluce, both former child actors.^[2] Frye's parents divorced when she was two.^[1]

Career[link]

Frye made her acting debut in the 1982 television movie Missing Children: A Mother's Story. At the age of eight, she starred in the title role of Punky Brewster, a sitcom that aired on NBC and in syndication from 1984 to 1988. She also voiced the lead role in the animated series It's Punky Brewster. After the series ended in 1986, Frye landed the lead role in the short lived 1988 sitcom Cadets. During the 1990s, she guest starred on several television series including The Wonder Years, Saved by the Bell, and Friends, and voiced characters for the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures and The Cartoon Cartoon Show. In addition to her television work, Frye has appeared in the films The Liars' Club (1993) and Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1995) and in stage productions of Orestes, I Murdered My Mother and The Housekeeper. In 1996, Frye moved to New York to attend The New School and later directed the film Wild Horses (1998).^[3]

From 2000 to 2003, Frye portrayed the character of Roxie King in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, with her longtime friend and series producer Melissa Joan Hart.^[4] During the run of Sabrina, she voiced the character of Zoey in the Disney Channel series The Proud Family and the series' 2005 television movie.

Frye directed her second film, Sonny Boy, in 2004. The documentary chronicles a two week trip Frye took with her father, Virgil, who has Alzheimer's disease. Sonny Boy was an official selection at the 27th Starz Denver International Film Festival^[5] and won Best Documentary at the San Diego Film Festival. In 2006, she provided the voice for Jade in the animated series Bratz.

In March 2010, Frye and her friend and former Sabrina castmate Melissa Joan Hart launched the "Better Together" campaign for Gain.^[6]

Personal life[link]

After suffering from virginal breast hypertrophy as a teen, Frye underwent a breast reduction three months before her 16th birthday.^[1]

Frye married Jason Goldberg, a television producer and actor, on October 25, 1998, in Los Angeles. Their first child, daughter Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg, was born on August 24, 2005, in Los Angeles.^[7] On March 17, 2008, she gave birth to her second child, daughter Jagger Joseph Blue Goldberg.^[8]

In 2007, Frye, along with two friends, opened The Little Seed, an environmentally-conscious children's specialty boutique in Los Angeles.^[9]

Selected filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Soleil Moon Frye

• Soleil Moon Frye at the Internet Movie Database
• Soleil Moon Frye at AllRovi
• Soleil Moon Frye on Twitter
• Soleil Moon Frye on Facebook

Soleil may refer to:

• French for the Sun
• Soleil (Watanabe Misato album), a 2002 album by female Japanese pop artist Watanabe Misato
• Soleil (Jean-Pierre Ferland album), a 1971 album
• Soleil (film), a 1997 French film by Roger Hanin
• Soleil (Miami), an approved skyscraper to be built in Miami, Florida
• Soleil (Brisbane), a skyscraper in Brisbane, Australia
• Soleil (name), which may be either a surname or given name
• Soleil Productions, a French comic book publisher
• SOLEIL, a synchrotron in France
• Cirque du Soleil, an international circus organization based in Montreal, Canada
• The European title for the Sega Mega Drive game Crusader of Centy

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Melissa Joan Hart
Hart on August 20, 2011
Born	Melissa Joan Hart (1976-04-18) April 18, 1976 (age 36) Smithtown, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director, producer, writer, singer, businesswoman
Years active	1985–present
Spouse	Mark Wilkerson (m. 2003) «start: (2003)»"Marriage: Mark Wilkerson to Melissa Joan Hart" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Melissa_Joan_Hart)
Children	2
Website
http://melissajoanhart.ning.com/

Melissa Joan Catherine Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress, writer, television director, television producer, singer and businesswoman.^[1] Hart is perhaps best known for her title roles in the television series Clarissa Explains It All (1991–1994),^[2] the live action version of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996–2003),^[2] and Melissa & Joey (2010–present).

Hart's career has mixed movie work with television, including appearances in the popular TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and That '70s Show. Hart has been married to musician Mark Wilkerson since July 19, 2003 (married in Firenze); together, they have two children and in April 2012 announced they are expecting their third child.

Biography[link]

Hart was born April 18, 1976^[2] in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, the first child of Paula, a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, a carpenter, shellfish purveyor, clam hatchery worker, and entrepreneur.^[3] She grew up in Sayville, New York. Her parents had four other children after Melissa: Trisha, Elizabeth, Brian, and Emily. Her parents were divorced in the early 1990s, and she moved with her mother and siblings to New York City. In 1994 her mother married television executive Leslie Gilliams, and her father also remarried (Lisa Hart).

Melissa Hart was named after the Allman Brothers song "Melissa", while her middle name, Joan, came from her maternal grandmother. She chose Catherine as her confirmation name when she was in the eighth grade.^[2]

Hart is the eldest of eight children with six sisters, and one brother. Sisters Trisha, Elizabeth and Emily Hart, brother Brian, and half-sisters Alexandra Gilliams and Samantha Gilliams have all acted. Her youngest half-sister Mackenzie Hart is not in show business.^[2]

Career[link]

Early beginnings[link]

Hart's career began at age four when she made a television commercial for a bathtub doll called Splashy.^[2] From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making 25 of them before the age of five. Other early television work included a small role in the miniseries Kane & Abel in 1985, a guest-starring role in an episode of The Equalizer^[4] in 1986, and a starring role alongside Katherine Helmond in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Christmas Snow,^[2] also in 1986. She made a cameo guest appearance on the April 22, 1986 episode of the NBC daytime soap opera Another World. She also auditioned for the lead role Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, losing the role to American actress Danielle Harris.

In 1989, she became the understudy for a Broadway production of The Crucible starring Martin Sheen.^[5]

[edit] 1991–1994: Clarissa Explains It All

In 1991 Hart landed the starring role on the Nickelodeon series Clarissa Explains It All, a comedy about a teen girl in everyday situations, which was successful during its four-year run.^[6][7] The show brought her four consecutive Young Artist Award nominations, winning three.^[8] Her role in the series also led to her starring in the FMV video game Nickelodeon's Director's Lab as a tour guide who takes the player around a movie studio. In 1992, she and Clarissa cast member Jason Zimbler appeared on the game show Nick Arcade as contestants, she is one of the few people who played the beta version of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 on the Video Challenge.^{[citation needed]}

Hart also recorded two albums as Clarissa, This is What 'Na Na' Means^[9] and a recording of Peter and the Wolf.^[10]

In 1995, a year after the end of Clarissa Explains It All, Hart filmed an unaired sequel called "Clarissa," a pilot for CBS starring a college-aged Clarissa, this time, explaining it all about her foray into the professional world as an intern at a newspaper. The show featured a slow, jazz version of her original theme song, and also starred Robert Klein as her boss.^[11]

Hart appeared on Nickelodeon's anthology show Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season 2 episode "The Tale Of The Frozen Ghost" in 1991.^[12]

[edit] 1995–2003: Sabrina, The Teenage Witch

After the television series ended, Hart attended New York University.^[13] However, she did not complete her degree, because she was given the title role for the 1996 TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch.^[14] This was followed by the television series of the same name which lasted seven seasons on ABC and The WB.^[15][16] She later collaborated on an animated version that featured Hart voicing the two aunts Hilda and Zelda, and Hart's younger sister Emily Hart starring in the title role.^[17] In between times, she also guest-starred on the series Touched by an Angel and starred in several TV movies.

In 1998, Hart landed a small part in the movie Can't Hardly Wait,^[18] and then started filming Next to You, starring alongside Adrian Grenier.^[19] Hart asked her friend Britney Spears to do a remix of her song "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and add it to the movie's soundtrack. To capitalize on the song's success as a top-ten hit,^[20] the title of the movie was changed to Drive Me Crazy and Hart joined Spears in the music video for that song.^[21] Around the same time, Spears was given a guest role in an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch where she played herself.

Hart appeared in lingerie in a series of photographs and an accompanying article in the October 1999 issue of the men's magazine Maxim.^[22] Hart maintained her acting career in the 2000s including working on the film Rent Control,^[23] which aired in 2005 on the ABC Family cable network. Hart continued her role on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which finished in 2003,^[16] and also performed several voice-over roles for animation.

In 1999, Hart made her directorial debut in an episode of Disney Channel's So Weird called "Snapshot" which starred her sister, Emily Hart. She later directed an episode of Nickelodeon's Taina in 2001. In 2001–2002, she directed 6 episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, including the season 6 finale.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 2004–present: Post-Sabrina and Melissa & Joey

Hart at the Paley Center for Media in June 2011

After the end of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Hart directed her first movie, a 15-minute live-action short film called Mute (2005), starring her sister Emily. Hart guest-starred on an episode of Law & Order: SVU that aired on October 9, 2007 titled "Impulsive" as a teacher accused of statutory rape.^[24] In late 2007, she directed the "Anger Cage" video for her husband Mark Wilkerson's band Course of Nature. She also starred in the ABC Family Original Movie Holiday in Handcuffs, opposite Mario Lopez. The movie premiered on December 9, 2007, and was the highest rated program in the history of the network, with 6.7 million viewers.^[25] Hart followed this with another ABC movie with a similar premise, My Fake Fiance, in 2009.

In March 2009, Hart opened a candy shop called SweetHarts in Sherman Oaks, California.^[26] Hart commented that it had been her "childhood dream" to own a candy shop.^[27] SweetHarts closed in December 2011 due to a lawsuit from a former employee as well as 'scheduling difficulties,' and has since been reopened and operated under the same name by new owners. ^[28][29][30]

It was announced on August 17, 2009 that she would compete in season 9 of Dancing with the Stars.^[31] Hart was paired up with two-time reigning champion, Mark Ballas but she was eliminated from the competition in week six out of a possible 10.^[32]

Hart starred as Kelley in a 2010 horror thriller film entitled Nine Dead,^[33] before returning to sitcoms, starring with Joey Lawrence in a new sitcom, Melissa & Joey.^[34][35] In the series Hart plays a woman who hires Lawrence as a nanny to help care for her incarcerated sister's children.^[36] Hart also joined the cast of an off-Broadway production of 'Love, Loss, and What I Wore' for a four week run that started in March 2010 and ended April 25, 2010.^[37][38]

In March 2010, Hart took part in an ad campaign for Gain detergent with former Sabrina, the Teenage Witch co-star Soleil Moon Frye.^[39]

On November 22, 2010, Hart participated as a presenter in the International Emmy Awards.^[40]

Personal life[link]

Hart at her Sweet Harts Candy Shop opening day, May 30, 2009

On July 19, 2003, Hart married musician Mark Wilkerson.^[41] The preparations for the ceremony, which took place in Florence, Italy, were documented in a TV miniseries titled Tying the Knot, produced by Hart's production company, Hartbreak Films.^[41] Hart and Wilkerson have two sons: Mason Walter Wilkerson, born in January 2006, and Braydon "Brady" Hart Wilkerson, born in March 2008. Both were born in Los Angeles, California.^[42][43] On April 17, 2012, Hart confirmed they were expecting their third child.^[44][45]

Hart and Wilkerson were featured in People magazine's April 7, 2008 issue, introducing Braydon to the world.^[46] Hart wrote a diary, including video entries, to document potty training her son, Mason, for Pull-Ups brand diapers.^[2] Hart has called herself a fan of Peggy Noonan and Ronald Reagan.^[47] Hart and her family live in Westport, Connecticut.^[48]

Awards[link]

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

• 1997 – Best Genre TV Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)

Kids' Choice Awards

• 2003 – Favorite Television Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)
• 2002 – Favorite Television Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)
• 2001 – Favorite Television Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)
• 2000 – Favorite Television Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)
• 2000 – Favorite Movie Actress for "Drive Me Crazy" (Won)
• 1999 – Favorite Television Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)
• 1998 – Favorite Television Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Won)

Teen Choice Awards

• 1999 – TV – Choice Actress for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)

Young Artist Awards

• 1998 – Best Performance in a TV Movie or Feature Film – Young Ensemble for "The Right Connections" ('Won')
• 1998 – Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series – Leading Young Performer for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" ('Won')
• 1997 – Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series – Leading Young Performer for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" ('Won')
• 1995 – Best Youth Comedienne in a TV Show for "Clarissa Explains It All" ('Won')
• 1994 – Youth Actress Leading Role in a Television Series for "Clarissa Explains It All" (Nominated)
• 1993 – Best Young Actress Starring in a Cable Series for "Clarissa Explains It All" ('Won')
• 1992 – Best Young Actress Starring in an Off-Primetime or Cable Series for "Clarissa Explains It All" ('Won')

YoungStar Awards

• 1997 – Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy TV Series for "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Nominated)

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Melissa Joan Hart

• Official website
• Melissa Joan Hart on Myspace
• Mellissa Joan Hart on Facebook
• Melissa Joan Hart on Twitter
• Official Sweet Hart Sweets site
• Melissa Joan Hart at the Internet Movie Database
• Melissa Joan Hart at the Internet Broadway Database
• Melissa Joan Hart at Internet Off-Broadway Database

Edward Walter Furlong (born August 2, 1977) is an American actor whose best known film roles are John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Daniel Vinyard in American History X. He is a two-time Saturn Award nominee, winning the 1992 Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for his performance in Terminator 2. He also won the 1992 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for his work in the film.

Early life[link]

Furlong was born in Glendale, California, near Burbank, the son of Eleanor (née Tafoya), a youth-center worker, and an unknown father. He is of Mexican descent on his mother's side, and also has Russian and possibly Native American ancestry.^[1][2] Furlong has a younger half-brother, Bobby Torres, from his mother's marriage to Moises Torres. Furlong moved in with his aunt and uncle, Nancy Tafoya and Sean Furlong, in 1990; the two gained legal guardianship of Furlong in September 1991 and subsequently lost it to his mother in August 1993.^[3] Furlong attended Charles W. Eliot Middle School in Altadena, and South Pasadena Junior High School in South Pasadena, California. He never completed high school. He became legally emancipated at the age of 16.^[4]

Career[link]

1990s[link]

In 1991, Furlong began his film career as John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a role that earned him an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Role and a Saturn Award for best young actor. He was discovered for the part by casting director Mali Finn while visiting the Pasadena Boys and Girls Club. Furlong had no acting ambitions. He has stated, "I fell into [acting], it wasn't something that I planned".^[5]

He followed this role with a string of moderately successful high-profile films and indies, sharing the screen with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson in Before and After; Tim Roth, Maximilian Schell, and Vanessa Redgrave in Little Odessa; and Anthony Edwards in Pet Sematary Two.

In 1993, Furlong was featured in Aerosmith's music video for "Livin' on the Edge". This was also the only major Aerosmith video from Get a Grip not to feature Alicia Silverstone. He played the lead role of Michael Brower, a horror and videogame-obsessed teen in the 1994 film Brainscan. In 1995, he starred in the film adaptation of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp.

In 1998, he starred in American History X alongside Edward Norton and appeared in his first comedy role in Pecker, directed by John Waters. Of his title role in Pecker, Furlong stated, "It's true most of the characters that I've played so far are kind of like suicidal. Really dark roles, which I like. But I wanted to do something different and John gave me a chance to do that."^[6]

In 1999, he starred in the film Detroit Rock City. During filming he met Natasha Lyonne, whom he then dated.^[7]

2000s[link]

In 2000, Furlong played a young convict in Steve Buscemi's film Animal Factory. The following year, he took a role in I Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa aka The Knights of the Quest, a film by Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati. Furlong worked steadily over the next few years, acting in five other films between 2003 and 2005.

In 2003, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was released. Despite having played the role of John Connor in Terminator 2, Furlong was not cast to reprise the role. Instead the part was played by Nick Stahl. Furlong later stated, "It just wasn't the time. I was going through my own thing at the point in my life – whatever, it just wasn't meant to be".^[8]

That same year, he appeared in a music video for Metallica's "The Unnamed Feeling".^[9]

In 2005, Furlong played the lead in the fourth film in The Crow series, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, alongside David Boreanaz and Tara Reid. The film was planned for a theatrical release, but eventually went straight to DVD. Despite this, Furlong was optimistic, stating, "I feel through word of mouth people will find it. There's a huge base for Crow fans. Just from what I've seen on the Internet, people are really excited about it. Personally, I say it's the best one since the first one".^[5]

He starred as Jimmy in Jimmy & Judy in 2006, during which time he met Rachael Bella. The two became romantically involved and later married. In 2006 and again in 2010, Furlong appeared as a guest star on five episodes of the television program CSI: NY as character Shane Casey.

Furlong appeared in the 2009 remake of the 1988 horror classic Night of the Demons shot in New Orleans.

Several of Furlong's recent films are still in post-production, or have been shown at film festivals rather than in major theatrical release. He appeared in the film Kingshighway, which was due to be released 2010.^[10] He starred in Mortician 3D alongside Method Man.^[11] He played the role of Ravi in the psychological thriller Crave, which was filmed in Detroit, Michigan. Furlong plays the lead role alongside Michael Berryman in the upcoming Canadian horror thriller Below Zero 3-D.^[12]

He also had a role in the 2011 Seth Rogen film, The Green Hornet.

In 2011 he will star in "This is not a Movie", a Mexican production spoken in English, written and directed by Olallo Rubio and co starring Peter Coyote and Edi Gathegi. The film is scored by ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. The film has been released in Germany in 2010 and Mexico in January 2011.^[13]

Other work[link]

After Furlong achieved particular popularity in Japan as a result of Terminator 2,^{[citation needed]} he appeared in TV advertisements for various Japanese products.^[14] He also released an album in Japan called Hold on Tight, which included a cover of The Doors song "People Are Strange".^[15] Furlong would later say that the music was "the exact opposite of rock" and "a bad mistake".^[16]

Furlong has also modeled, in 1996 for Calvin Klein^[17] and for The Gap.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[link]

Furlong was romantically involved with Natasha Lyonne,^[7] Jolene Blalock,^[18] and Paris Hilton.^[7][19] He took up with his 29-year-old former tutor, Jacqueline Domac, who became his manager for several years.^[20] They dated from 1993 to 1998.^[7]

Furlong married Rachael Bella on April 19, 2006. The couple's son, Ethan Page Furlong, was born on September 21, 2006.^[21] On July 8, 2009, Rachael Bella filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences.^[22] In October 2010, Bella received a restraining order from a court, against Furlong. She claimed he threatened to commit suicide,^[23] repeatedly refused to undergo any drug tests,^[24] and that he told her he hit their son's testicles.^[25] He was also ordered by the court to undergo counselling.^[26] She told the court he regularly drove past her house in an intimidating manner, and threatened to hire people to beat her with metal chains and baseball bats.^[27] In January 2011 Furlong told a judge he is "completely broke", and cannot afford to pay child support.^[28] Furlong was ordered to pay Bella over $15,000 in backdated child support in October 2011.^[29]

Substance abuse and legal problems[link]

Furlong had a long battle with alcoholism and drug addiction.

On 24 April 2001 he was hospitalized for a suspected heroin overdose after being found unconscious in a pool of his own vomit.^[30]

On 25 September 2001 he was arrested twice in the same day for two separate incidents involving driving without a license and DUI.^[31][32] After being in and out of rehab,^[19] he stated that, "The first year of quitting (drugs) is the hardest thing I've ever had to do, physically and mentally."^[33]

In September 2004, Furlong was arrested for public intoxication following an incident at a Meijer grocery store in Florence, Kentucky (in the Cincinnati area), where he was filming the independent film Jimmy and Judy. According to the police report, he and some friends were getting rowdy and yanking lobsters out of the store's tank. When police arrived, an unsteady Furlong, who "smelled of booze," began to "turn around in circles" when an officer tried to frisk him. Furlong spent a few hours in custody before making bail on the misdemeanor count.^[34][35]

In December 2006 he told "People" magazine that he smokes 2-3 packs of cigarettes a day.^[36] At the same time he also admitted being addicted to cocaine and heroin from the age of 22 to 26.^[37]

On 11 January 2010, Furlong was arrested and jailed for violating his probation stemming from the restraining order his estranged wife filed.^[38] That evening he was still in jail needing to post a $75,000 bond for release. He was released the following morning.^[38]

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Television[link]

Awards[link]

References[link]